The decade of the 1740s in archaeology involved some significant events.

[edit] Explorations

[edit] Excavations

• Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.
• 1748: Mr. Jeong Ji-hae, a Yangban and father of the Governor of Jinju, excavates 6 Goryeo Dynasty (AD 918-1392) tombs of individuals whom Jeong thought may have been his ancestors, and thus becomes the first archaeologist in Korea.

[edit] Finds

Elaborate oil lamp from Herculaneum, as depicted in Le Antichità di Ercolano (1744).

[edit] Publications

• 1740: William Stukeley's description of Stonehenge.
• 1744: First volume of Le Antichità di Ercolano, account of discoveries at Herculaneum.
• 1746: A professor of Leiden University publishes the Papenbroek Collection, an important Dutch collection of art and antiquities.

[edit] Other events

• 1743: The Papenbroek Collection is bequeathed to Leiden University. The bequest comprised about 150 antiquities. It was put on public display, but poorly taken care of until it would get an official curator, half a century later.^[1]

[edit] Births

• 1743: November 23 - Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne (died 1800)

[edit] Deaths

• 1747: date unknown - Nicholas Mahudel (b. 1704).

[edit] References