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).