1863 in archaeology

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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1863.

Explorations

Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy begin joint exploration of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.^[1]

Excavations at Ephesus by John Turtle Wood begin.
William Copeland Borlase supervises excavations of the re-discovered prehistoric settlement and fogou at Carn Euny in Cornwall.

Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland is published posthumously.^[2]
The text of the Iguvine Tablets (3rd–1st centuries BC) is first published, by Francis William Newman in London.
Zeitschrift für ägyptisches Sprache und Altertumskunde begins publication.

April 15 – Winged Victory of Samothrace found at Samothrace by Charles Champoiseau. Made c.190 BC, it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
April 20 – Augustus of Prima Porta in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome.
Nydam Boats found in Denmark by Conrad Engelhardt.^[3]
Early human jawbone found in proximity to flint tools at Moulin Quignon in France by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, subsequently considered a hoax perpetrated by one of his diggers.

July 3 – Alexander Henry Rhind, Scottish Egyptologist (born 1833)
November 4 [O.S. October 23] – Kyriakos Pittakis, Greek archaeologist (born c. 1798)