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1802 in archaeology
The year 1802 in archaeology involved some significant events. Vivant Denon - Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte; includes first publication of the Dendera zodiac. Johann Jahn - Biblische Archäologie. The Rosetta Stone arrives at the British Museum and first goes on public display. Georg Friedrich Grotefend makes the first decipherment of cuneiform. Juan Galindo, explorer and writer of early accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (d. 1839).
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