Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1855.

Explorations

Excavations

• May - Heath Wood barrow cemetery in England, by Thomas Bateman.^[1]
• Dalton Parlours Roman villa in Yorkshire, England, by F Carroll.

Finds

• January 19 - Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II in a necropolis near Sidon.^[2]

Events

• December 14 - inaugural meeting of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society

Publications

• John Yonge Akerman - Remains of Pagan Saxondom.
• Churchill Babington (ed.) - Benefizio della Morte di Cristo, a remarkable book of the Reformation period.

Births

• September 10 - Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist (d. 1925).^[3]

Deaths

• April 15 - William John Bankes, English Member of Parliament, explorer and Egyptologist (b. 1786).^[4]