The decade of the 1760s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.

Finds

• 1765, Nathaniel Davidson discovers a stress-relieving chamber (Davidson's chamber) above the Kings chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Publications

Other events

Births

• 1760: Karl Böttiger, German archaeologist (died 1835).
• 1763: November 19 - Karl Ludwig Fernow (died 1808).
• 1766: June 13 - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck (died 1875).
• 1769: March 23 - William Smith (geologist)
• 1769: August 23 - Georges Cuvier, naturalist, zoologist, paleontologist
• 1769: September 14 - Alexander von Humboldt, explorer, writer

Deaths

• 1765: March 3 - William Stukeley, antiquarian (born 1689)