title: 1640s in archaeology
text: # 1640s in archaeology
  
  The decade of the 1640s in archaeology involved some significant events.
  
  ## Explorations
  
  * 1649: John Aubrey describes the megaliths at Avebury, England.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * 1643: Athanasius Kircher, Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta.
  * 1646: John Greaves, Pyramidographia, or a Description of the Pyramids in Ægypt.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1646: April 4 - Antoine Galland (d. 1715).
  * 1647: Jacques Spon, French doctor and archaeologist (d. 1685).
  