1730s in archaeology
The decade of the 1730s in archaeology involved some significant events.
Excavations
Finds
- 1738: First formal excavations of Herculaneum, by Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre sponsored by Charles III of Spain
Publications
- 1732: John Horsley - Britannia Romana.
- 1735: Prospero Alpini - Historiæ Ægypti Naturalis.
- 1736: Francis Drake - ''Eboracum''
Other events
- 1731: December 8 - Antiquarian John Freeman buries a 'time capsule' in the grounds of his house at Fawley Court in England.
- 1734: November 12 - Nicholas Mahudel reads a paper to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres on Three Successive Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron, introducing the concept of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.
Births
- 1730: September 16 - William Hamilton, Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and volcanologist
- 1732: Luigi Lanzi, Italian archaeologist
- 1735: August 8 - Jérémie Jacques Oberlin, Alsatian archaeologist
Deaths
- 1732: January 12 - John Horsley, British archaeologist