1640s in archaeology
# 1640s in archaeology

The decade of the 1640s in archaeology involved some significant events.

## Explorations

* 1649: John Aubrey describes the megaliths at Avebury, England.

## Publications

* 1643: Athanasius Kircher, Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta.
* 1646: John Greaves, Pyramidographia, or a Description of the Pyramids in Ægypt.

## Births

* 1646: April 4 - Antoine Galland (d. 1715).
* 1647: Jacques Spon, French doctor and archaeologist (d. 1685).
