1865 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1865.

Explorations

 * The first report of a discovery of Coţofeni culture at Râpa Roșie in Romania is made by Fr. W. Schuster.

Excavations

 * Excavations at Slack Roman fort in Yorkshire (England) under the direction of George Lloyd.

Publications

 * Joseph Barnard Davis and John Thurnam complete publication of Crania Britannica: delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British islands.
 * John Lubbock publishes Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages, including his coinage of the term Palæolithic.
 * Joseph-Alexander Martigny publishes Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes.
 * Edward Burnett Tylor publishes Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization.

Finds

 * French archeologist Auguste Mariette discovers Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt. It is made c. 2510 BC - 2460 BC.

Events

 * Churchill Babington elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
 * Palestine Exploration Fund is established.

Births

 * June 22 - Friedrich Sarre, German Orientalist (d. 1945)
 * August 27 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
 * Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist of Buddhism (d. 1952)

Deaths

 * May 4: Henry Christy, English ethnologist, archaeologist and sponsor (born 1810).
 * May 21 - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish archaeologist (born 1788).