1680s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1680s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

1683: June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens in Oxford. The Rev. Robert Huntington donates the limestone false door stele of Shery from Saqqara (Fourth Dynasty of Egypt), one of the first large Middle Eastern sculptures seen in Western Europe.^[2]
1687: An explosion destroys part of the Parthenon.^[3]

^ "The largest Hunebed". HunebedCentrum. 2012. Archived from the original on 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
^ Ashmolean Museum AN1836.479.
^ "Parthenon". britannica.com. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ "Athanasius Kircher". Yale University Library. Retrieved 20 June 2017.

Preceded by 1670s in archaeology	Archaeology timeline 1680s	Succeeded by 1690s in archaeology