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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.
Excavations
Publications
Finds
- Coleraine Hoard in the north of Ireland.
- Dalton Parlours Roman villa in Yorkshire, England.
Awards
Miscellaneous
Births
- August 26 - Kate Bradbury Griffith, English Egyptologist (d. 1902)
Deaths
- September 27 - Frederick Catherwood (b. 1799)
See also
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