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The year 1875 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Explorations 2 Excavations 3 Publications 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

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• Hermes and the infant Dionysos by Praxiteles or his followers, a Hellenistic or Roman copy after the original of 4th century BC is discovered in the rubble of the ruined Temple of Hera at Olympia, Greece. It is now at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

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• October 21 - Sir Guy Francis Laking, keeper of the London Museum
• November 19 - Hiram Bingham III

[edit] Deaths

• Jean-Frédéric Waldeck

[edit] See also

• Ancient Egypt / Egyptology