1863 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1863.

Explorations

 * Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy begin joint exploration of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.

Excavations

 * Excavations at Ephesus by John Turtle Wood begin.
 * William Copeland Borlase supervises excavations of the re-discovered prehistoric settlement and fogou at Carn Euny in Cornwall.

Publications

 * Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland is published posthumously.
 * The text of the Iguvine Tablets (3rd–1st centuries BC) is first published, by Francis William Newman in London.
 * Zeitschrift für ägyptisches Sprache und Altertumskunde begins publication.

Finds

 * April 15 – Winged Victory of Samothrace found at Samothrace by Charles Champoiseau. Made c.190 BC, it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
 * April 20 – Augustus of Prima Porta in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome.
 * Nydam Boats found in Denmark by Conrad Engelhardt.
 * Early human jawbone found in proximity to flint tools at Moulin Quignon in France by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, subsequently considered a hoax perpetrated by one of his diggers.

Miscellaneous

 * Anthropological Society of London formed

Births

 * July 4 – Hugo Winckler, German Assyriologist (died 1913)
 * July 13 – Margaret Murray, Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (died 1963)
 * Francis Joseph Bigger, Irish antiquarian (died 1926)

Deaths

 * July 3 – Alexander Henry Rhind, Scottish Egyptologist (born 1833)
 * – Kyriakos Pittakis, Greek archaeologist (born c. 1798)