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The year 1865 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Publications

• John Lubbock publishes Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages.
• Joseph-Alexander Martigny publishes Dictionaire des antiquités chrétiennes.

Finds

• French archeologist Auguste Mariette discovers Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt. It is made c. 2510 BC - 2460 BC.

Awards

Miscellaneous

• Churchill Babington elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
• Palestine Exploration Fund is established.

Births

Deaths

See also

• Ancient Egypt / Egyptology