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The decade of the 1730s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.

Finds

• 1738: Herculaneum is rediscovered, buried in volcanic ash near Pompeii.

1730: William Hamilton.

Publications

• 1734: Three Successive Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron, by Nicholas Mahudel.

Other events

Births

• 1730: September 16 - William Hamilton, Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and volcanologist (died 1803)
• 1732: Luigi Lanzi, Italian archaeologist (died 1810)
• 1735: August 8 - Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (died 1806)

Deaths