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Professor William Francis Grimes (31 October 1905 – 25 December 1988) was a British archaeologist who devoted his career to the archaeology of London. During the 1950s and 60s Grimes carried out dozens of excavations in the city in his capacity as director of both the Museum of London and Mortimer Wheeler's Institute of Archaeology. Jump to: navigation, search October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the... Jump to: navigation, search The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Palaeolithic to the present day. ... Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler was the best-known British archaeologist of the twentieth century. ...

Grimes' most famous discovery was the London Mithraeum in 1954, a Roman temple to the god Mithras, uncovered during rebuilding work on a central London bomb site off Walbrook. Although the site was built over, Grimes succeded in salvaging many of its finds and features including marble statuary attesting to the wealth of its congregation. The present day location of the temple foundations. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Temple of Hercules Victor, near the Teatro di Marcello in Rome (a Greek-style Roman temple) // Pagan history and architecture Originally in Roman paganism, a templum was not (necessarily) a cultic building but any ritually marked observation site for natural henomena belived to allow predictions... Mithra and the Bull: fresco from Dura Europos late 2nd–early 3rd century Mithras was the central savior god of Mithraism, a syncretic Hellenistic mystery religion of male initiates that developed in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC and was practiced in the Roman Empire from... The Walbrook river played a key role in the Roman settlement of Londinium, the city now known as London. ...

As a result of public pressure a replica temple was rebuilt elsewhere.