1832 in archaeology

Explorations

 * May - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck begins a year's stay at the Maya ruins of Palenque.

Finds

 * 15 October - The Hexham Hoard of eight thousand copper-alloy coins (stycas) in a bronze bucket is discovered while a grave is being dug close to Hexham Abbey in the north of England.
 * Hermes of Andros in Andros, Greece.

Publications

 * Ippolito Rosellini, Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia begins publication.

Births

 * 29 July - Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director (d. 1904)
 * 1 November - Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (d. 1898)

Deaths

 * 4 March - Jean-François Champollion, French decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (b. 1790)
 * 13 May - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1769)