1730s in archaeology
The decade of the 1730s in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
Excavations
Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.
Finds
1738: Herculaneum is rediscovered, buried in volcanic ash near Pompeii.
Publications
1732: John Horsley - Britannia Romana (posthumous).
1735: Prospero Alpini - Historiæ Ægypti Naturalis (posthumous).
1736: Francis Drake - Eboracum (Roman York)
Other events
1731: December 8 - Antiquarian John Freeman buries a 'time capsule' in the grounds of his house at Fawley Court in England.
1734: November 12 - Nicholas Mahudel reads a paper to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres on Three Successive Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron, introducing the concept of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.
Births
1730: September 16 - William Hamilton, Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and volcanologist (died 1803)
1732: Luigi Lanzi, Italian archaeologist (died 1810)
1735: August 8 - Jérémie Jacques Oberlin, Alsatian archaeologist (died 1806)
