1854, Thomas De Quincey, Theological Essays and other Papers, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields; Volume II., page #60:
It was not to be expected, with the scanty materials before him, that an illustrator of the Hebrew costume should be as full and explicit as Böttiger, with the advantage of writing upon a theme more familiar to us Europeans of this day, than any parallel theme even in our own national archæologies of two centuries back.
Before discovering whence American civilizations came, we must thoroughly know what they were, nor attempt the arduous and obscure question of their origin till we frame a real American archæology on the same scientific basis and by the same methods as other archæologies.
1891, Otis T. Mason in The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives; page #551:
The two archæologies, classic and pre‐historic, have for their official organ the American Journal of Archæology and of the History of Fine Arts.
