The year 1812 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt discovers Petra.
Excavations Colosseum, Rome: The arena substructure is partly excavated during 1810–1814.
Publications Sir Richard Colt Hoare - The Ancient History of South Wiltshire.
Miscellaneous American Antiquarian Society is founded in Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas.
Deaths July 14 - Christian Gottlob Heyne, German classicist (b. 1729) December 22 - Pierre Henri Larcher, French classicist (b. 1726)
See also Roman Forum - excavations.
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