Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments adopted at the First International Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments.
23 May–1 October: Discovery and subsequent excavation of human artefacts at Vogelherd Cave in Germany, including Upper Paleolithic figurines (under direction of Gustav Riek).
September: First prehistoric tool recovered from Doggerland.[1]
October: The Parel Relief or Parel Shiva, an important monolithic relief of the Hindu god Shiva in seven forms that is dated to the late Gupta period, in the 5th or 6th century AD is found in Parel, now a neighbourhood of Mumbai, India, where a road is being constructed.[2]
29 December: Calakmul rediscovered by Cyrus L. Lundell.
The remains of 450 infants and 150 dogs dated to 165 BC–150 BC are found at the Athenian Agora; the infants are subsequently found to have died from meningitis and other natural causes.
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