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- June–July - Carl Humann works at Hierapolis.
- A local woman digging for sebakh at Amarna uncovers a cache of over 300 cuneiform tablets containing diplomatic correspondence of the Pharaohs, now commonly known as the Amarna Letters.
- German submersible Brandtaucher, which sank on trial in the port of Kiel in 1851, is discovered, and on July 5 is raised.
- William Ivison Macadam - "Notes on the Ancient Iron Industry of Scotland", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
- Augustus Pitt Rivers - Excavations in Cranborne Chase, vol. 1 [1]
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- The Reverend George Brown is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
- January 27 - Carl Blegen, American archaeologist of Greece (d. 1971) [2]
- October 27 - Neil Judd, American archaeologist (d. 1976) [3]
- September 1 - Jules Desnoyers, French geologist and archaeologist (b. 1800)
- ^ Petch, Alison. "Cranborne Chase excavations". web.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ "Carl Blegen". Britannica.com. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ "Portrait of Neil Merton Judd". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1887.
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adding to it. (July 2010) |
- June–July - Carl Humann works at Hierapolis.
- A local woman digging for sebakh at Amarna uncovers a cache of over 300 cuneiform tablets containing diplomatic correspondence of the Pharaohs, now commonly known as the Amarna Letters.
- German submersible Brandtaucher, which sank on trial in the port of Kiel in 1851, is discovered, and on July 5 is raised.
- William Ivison Macadam - "Notes on the Ancient Iron Industry of Scotland", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
- Augustus Pitt Rivers - Excavations in Cranborne Chase, vol. 1 [1]
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| This section is empty. You can help by
adding to it. (July 2010) |
- The Reverend George Brown is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
- January 27 - Carl Blegen, American archaeologist of Greece (d. 1971) [2]
- October 27 - Neil Judd, American archaeologist (d. 1976) [3]
- September 1 - Jules Desnoyers, French geologist and archaeologist (b. 1800)
- ^ Petch, Alison. "Cranborne Chase excavations". web.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ "Carl Blegen". Britannica.com. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ "Portrait of Neil Merton Judd". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 5 June 2017.