Excavations

• September 11–October 25 - Augustus Pitt Rivers
  Augustus Pitt Rivers
  Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.-Life and career:Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at...
  
   excavates Wor Barrow ditch.
• Wilhelm Dörpfeld
  Wilhelm Dörpfeld
  Wilhelm Dörpfeld was a German architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects...
  
   begins his excavations of Troy
  Troy
  Troy was a city, both factual and legendary, located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, southeast of the Dardanelles and beside Mount Ida...
  
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• House of the Silver Wedding, Pompeii
  Pompeii
  The city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning...
  
  . Built in early 1st century AD. Excavated the year of silver wedding anniversary of Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  's King Humbert and his wife, Margherita of Savoy
  Margherita of Savoy
  Margherita of Savoy , was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign of her husband, Umberto I.-Family:...
  
  , who have supported archaeological fieldwork at Pompeii.

Publications

• Baron J. de Baye - The Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons. Sonnenschein, London.
• Gustaf Nordenskiöld
  Gustaf Nordenskiöld
  Gustaf Nordenskiöld , Swedish scholar of Finnish descent, a member of the Nordenskiöld family of scientists and the eldest son of polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and Anna Maria Mannerheim...
  
   - The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado, Their Pottery and Their Implements. P. A. Norstedt and Soner, Stockholm-Chicago.

Finds

• Jaques de Morgan discovers six boats near the Middle Kingdom pyramid of Senwosret III at Dahshur
  Dahshur
  Dahshur , is a royal necropolis located in the desert on the west bank of the Nile approximately 40 kilometres south of Cairo...
  
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• First finds from the Butmir culture
  Butmir Culture
  Butmir culture existed in Butmir, near Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina, dating from the Neolithic period. It is characterized by its unique pottery, and is one of the best researched European cultures from 2600-2400 BC.-History:...
  
   near Sarajevo
  Sarajevo
  Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
  
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