Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1831.
Explorations Juan Galindo explores the Maya ruins of Palenque. Charles Nebel makes first survey of El Tajín.
Finds Spring: The Lewis chessmen are found in a sand-bank on the Isle of Lewis 24 October: The Alexander Mosaic is found in the House of the Faun, Pompeii
Births 7 June: Amelia Edwards, English Egyptologist and fiction writer (died 1892)
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