1857 in archaeology

Explorations

Excavations

Finds

• First artifacts of La T ne culture at La T ne, Switzerland
• Battersea Shield in the River Thames

Publications

• William Wilde begins publication of a classified catalogue of the museum of the Royal Irish Academy.

Births

• 27 July: E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptologist

Deaths

• 6 May - John Disney, barrister and archaeologist

See also

• list of years in archaeology
• 1856 in archaeology
• 1858 in archaeology

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