1802 in archaeology

The year 1802 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Publications

 * Vivant Denon - Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte; includes first publication of the Dendera zodiac.
 * Johann Jahn - Biblische Archäologie.

Other events

 * The Rosetta Stone arrives at the British Museum and first goes on public display.
 * Georg Friedrich Grotefend makes the first decipherment of cuneiform.

Births

 * Juan Galindo, explorer and writer of early accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (d. 1839).