1854 in archaeology
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
Finds
- Coleraine Hoard in the north of Ireland.
- Dalton Parlours Roman villa in Yorkshire, England.
Births
- August 26 - Kate Bradbury Griffith, English Egyptologist (d. 1902)
Deaths
- September 27 - Frederick Catherwood (b. 1799)
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