1832 in archaeology
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Explorations
- May - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck begins a year's stay at the Maya ruins of Palenque.
Finds
- 15 October - The Hexham Hoard of eight thousand copper-alloy coins (stycas) in a bronze bucket is discovered while a grave is being dug close to Hexham Abbey in the north of England.
Publications
- Ippolito Rosellini, Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia begins publication.
Births
- 1 November - Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (d. 1898)
Deaths
- 4 March - Jean-François Champollion, French decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (b. 1790)[1]
- 13 May - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1769)[2]
References
- "BBC - History - Jean-François Champollion". BBC. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- "Georges Cuvier". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
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