1858 in archaeology
# 1858 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1838.

## Explorations

* February 2 - Systematic exploration of the prehistoric Swiss lake pile village of Wetzikon-Robenhausen by Jakob Messikommer begins.
* Désiré Charnay makes the first photographs of the Maya ruins of Palenque

## Finds

* Stone tools in a cave at Brixham in England.
* Hoard of Neolithic flint tools and weapons at York in England.
* Ancient Greek sculpture of the Lion of Knidos found by Richard Popplewell Pullan near modern-day Datça, Turkey.
* Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu at Dayr al-Bahri by François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette.
* Boston Green Head at the Serapeum of Saqqara (presumed year).
* December 31 - Roman coin hoard at Weston Underwood found in Buckinghamshire, England.

## Events

* George Rowell uses photography to document the reconstruction of the Saxon 'Brighthampton Urn' in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (England), the first known such use in archaeological conservation.

## Births

* Approximate date - Mary Brodrick, English Egyptologist (died 1933)

## Deaths

* February 6 - Georg Friedrich Creuzer, German Greek philologist and archaeologist (born 1771)

## Establishments

* Municipal museum of Saverne, France, established.
