1680s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1680s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1683: June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens in Oxford. The Rev. Robert Huntington donates the limestone false door stele of Shery from Saqqara (Fourth Dynasty of Egypt), one of the first large Middle Eastern sculptures seen in Western Europe.^[2]
1687: An explosion destroys part of the Parthenon.^[3]

Preceded by 1670s in archaeology	Archaeology timeline 1680s	Succeeded by 1690s in archaeology