title: 1828 in archaeology
text: # 1828 in archaeology
  
  1828 in archaeology
  
  ## Events
  
  * The 'Metternich Stela' is presented by Muhammad Ali of Egypt to Prince Metternich.
  
  ## Finds
  
  * The Crondall Hoard, a hoard of one hundred and one old French and Anglo-Saxon coins, is found in the village of Crondall in the English county of Hampshire.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Prussian Academy of Sciences begins publication of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum under the editorship of August Böckh.
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 2 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and explorer (d. 1915)
  * August 18 - Jakob Messikommer, Swiss archaeologist (d. 1917)
  * Frank Calvert, British archaeologist (d. 1908)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 31 - Charles "Hindoo" Stuart, Anglo-Irish British East India Company officer and collector of Hindu antiquities (b. c.1758)
  