1854 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1854.

Explorations

 * Giovanni Battista de Rossi discovers the Catacomb of Callixtus in Rome.
 * Karl von Scherzer examines and writes a description of Quiriguá, a Maya site in Guatemala.
 * Thomas Wright investigates Kit's Coty House, the remains of a Neolithic chambered long barrow in Kent, England.

Finds

 * Coleraine Hoard in the north of Ireland.
 * Dalton Parlours Roman villa in Yorkshire, England.

Births

 * August 26 - Kate Bradbury Griffith, English Egyptologist (d. 1902)

Deaths

 * September 27 - Frederick Catherwood (b. 1799)