Excavations

• Hermes and the infant Dionysos by Praxiteles
  Praxiteles
  Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue...
  
   or his followers, a Hellenistic or Roman copy after the original of 4th century BC
  4th century BC
  The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period.-Overview:This century marked the height of Classical Greek civilization in all of its aspects...
  
   is discovered in the rubble of the ruined Temple of Hera at Olympia, Greece
  Olympia, Greece
  Olympia , a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. Both games were held every Olympiad , the Olympic Games dating back possibly further than 776 BC...
  
  . It is now at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

Publications

• William Collings Lukis
  William Collings Lukis
  Rev. William Collings Lukis MA. FSA was a British antiquarian, archeologist and polymath....
  
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  • A Guide to the Principal Chambered Barrows and other Pre-historic Monuments in the Islands of the Morbihan, the communes of Locmariaker, Carnac, Plouharnel and Erdeven, and the peninsulas of Quiberon and Rhuis, Brittany.
  • On the class of rude stone monuments which are commonly called in England cromlechs, and in France dolmens, and are here shown to have been the sepulchral chambers of once-existing mounds.

Births

• October 21 - Sir Guy Francis Laking
  Guy Francis Laking
  Sir Guy Francis Laking, 2nd Baronet was an English art historian and the first keeper of the London Museum from before its opening until his death.-Life:...
  
  , keeper of the London Museum
  London Museum
  The London Museum was inaugurated on 21 March 1912 by King George V with Queen Mary and Princess Mary and Prince George at Kensington Palace. It opened for public visitation on 8 April, admitting more than 13.000 visitors during the day. Two years later the collections were removed to Lancaster...
  
  
• November 19 - Hiram Bingham III
  Hiram Bingham III
  Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, was an academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician from the United States. He made public the existence of the Quechua citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers...