1873 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1873.

Excavations

 * January; November – George Smith sets out for excavations at Nineveh.

Explorations

 * Antonio García Cubas makes first scholarly description of the ruins of the Toltec capital in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico.
 * José Ramos Orihuela discovers the cave paintings in the Painted cave of Galdar ("Cueva Pintada") at Gáldar, Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria.

Finds

 * May 27 - German Classical archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" at the presumed site of Troy in Anatolia.
 * The Hiddensee treasure, a hoard of pendants and other gold jewellery from the time of Viking ruler Harald Bluetooth, is found on the German island of Hiddensee in the Baltic.
 * Bharhut stupa is identified in India by Alexander Cunningham.

Births

 * June 29 - Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist (d. 1938)
 * July 28 - John Winter Crowfoot, English educational administrator and archaeologist (d. 1959)