The year 1802 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Finds May 24/25 - A loculus in the Catacomb of Priscilla in Rome is located and opened, revealing remains believed at this time to be of the early Christian martyr Philomena.
Publications 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.
Other events The Rosetta Stone arrives at the British Museum and first goes on public display. Georg Friedrich Grotefend makes the first decipherment of cuneiform.
Births Juan Galindo, explorer and writer of early accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (d. 1839).
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