1832 in archaeology

Explorations

• May - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck begins a year's stay at the Maya ruins of Palenque.

Finds

• 15 October - The Hexham Hoard of eight thousand copper-alloy coins in a bronze bucket is discovered while a grave is being dug close to Hexham Abbey in the north of England.
• Hermes of Andros in Andros, Greece.

Publications

• Ippolito Rosellini, Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia begins publication.

Births

• 29 July - Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director
• 1 November - Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor

Deaths

• 4 March - Jean-François Champollion, French decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs
• 13 May - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist