Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1868. Excavations Charles Warren starts first excavations of Jericho. Grime's Graves in the English county of Norfolk is excavated in 1868-1870, including Gallery III2b of Greenwell's Pit. The Mammen excavation, a Viking Age site near Viborg in Jutland (Denmark) is excavated."Conservation of Textiles - part 3" (photos), webpage: Natmus-DK-textile . At Les Eyzies, France, a cave site is excavated containing Cro-Magnon remains, at the end of La Rue du Scez overlooking Le Havre du Scez (Saie). At Nymphaeum (a Greek colony in the Crimea), a burial site is excavated, with six Scythian tombs. In Greece, philologist Spyridon Findiklis and his assistant Ioannis Papadakis begin the first excavations in Thebes and Plataea. Alfred Biliotti starts excavations at Ialysos on Rhodes. Finds The Mesha Stele is found. At Rome, the remains of the Porta Capena are found. At Les Eyzies, France, alongside the Cro-Magnon remains, numerous flint tools of Aurignacian manufacture are found. Hildesheim Treasure is found. The first Shapwick hoard of Roman coins is found in England. Births January 3: Franz Cumont, Belgian archaeologist and historian (died 1947) March 15: Albert Lythgoe, American Egyptologist, curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum (died 1934) July 14: Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist (died 1926) Deaths September 10: Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (born 1788) See also Neanderthal man References