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The decade of the 1790s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1796: The Roman fort, vicus, bridge abutments and associated remains of Hadrian's Wall are excavated at Chesters, in England.
Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.

1799: At the town of Rosetta (Rashid), a harbor on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, French troops find the Rosetta Stone, inscribed with Greek/demotic/hieroglyphs (later translated, in 1822, by Frenchman Jean-François Champollion).

1797 : The tomb of King John of England is rediscovered at Worcester Cathedral in front of the altar.

1797: James Hutton, a Scotsman who has been called "the Father of Geology," publishes theories describing the earth as destroying and renewing itself in a never-ending cycle.

1790: December 23 - Jean-François Champollion (d. 1832), decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs
1793: January 22 - Caspar Reuvens (d. 1835), founder of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, first professor of archaeology
1796: date unknown - John MacEnery, priest and early archaeologist (d. 1841)
1797: October 5 - John Gardiner Wilkinson, English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (d. 1875)
1799: Karl Brullov, author of Last Day of Pompeii (d. 1852)