1878_in_archaeology
1878 in archaeology
Overview of the events of 1878 in archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1878.
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- American Antiquarian founded by Rev. Stephen D. Peet.
- Isaac Fletcher - "The Archaeology of the West Cumberland Coal Trade", Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society.
- The Balawat Gates are discovered in Assyria by Hormuzd Rassam.[1]
- 31 Iguanodon skeletons are discovered in a coal mine at Bernissart, Belgium.
- Pergamon Altar.
- Birka female Viking warrior excavated by Hjalmar Stolpe on the Swedish island of Björkö but believed at this time to be male.[2]
- Bayou St. John submarine.
- September 12 - 'Cleopatra's Needle' is erected beside the River Thames in London.[3]
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- December 29 - Félix-Marie Abel, French biblical archaeologist (d. 1953)
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- "The Balawat Gates". British Museum. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- Koffmar, Linda (2017-09-08). "Första DNA-bevisen för kvinnlig vikingakrigare" [First DNA evidence for female Viking warriors] (Press release) (in Swedish). Uppsala University. Archived from the original on 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
- Holland, Robert (2012). Blue-Water Empire: The British in the Mediterranean since 1800. Penguin UK. ISBN 9781846145551.