1660s in archaeology

1650s ^. 1660s in archaeology ^. 1670s

Explorations

1661: Athanasius Kircher discovers the ruins of a church in Rome said to have been constructed by the Emperor Constantine on the site of Saint Eustace's vision (later reconstructed as the Santuario della Mentorella).
1667: The Capuan bust of Hannibal is found in Capua, Italy.^[1]
1669: One of a pair of gold sun-discs from ca. 2500–2150 BCE is found at Ballyshannon in Ireland.^[2]^[3]

^ Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1896). Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 B.C., with a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War. Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
^ Camden's Britannia. 1695 edn.
^ "Ballyshannon 'Sun Disc'". Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
^ "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
^ "Lhuyd, Edward". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 June 2017.