1880 in archaeology 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Archaeology, archeology or archæology (from the Greek words αÏχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942) was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. ... The Great Pyramid The Great Pyramid of Giza (, ) is the oldest and last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World. ...
Julio C. Tello was born on April 11, 1880, in Huarochiri, the mountain range of Lima. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880–20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist, best known for his excavations at Ur in Sumerancient Mesopotamia. ...
An interest in classical archaeology was fostered by the foundation of the society of Dilettanti at the close of 1733.
He was among the first to welcome the opening of the museums of classical archaeology at Cambridge and Oxford.
23 The study of classical archaeology has been fostered in England by the foundation of the societies for the Promotion of Hellenic and Roman Studies in 1879 and 1911, and by the institution of the British Schools of Archaeology at Athens (of which Penrose was the first director) in 1886 and at Rome in 1901.
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