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Excerpt from The Dawn of Mediterranean Civilisation The favourable reception by the public of my first essays on the excavations in Crete has encouraged me to write a second volume treating more fully of the evidences of ancient Cretan civilisation as now known to us. The material which I collected in Crete, and especially the results of my excavations at Phæstos, could not all be included in my former volume, and I have during the last three years excavated much in Sicily and Southern Italy, and intend to continue this work next year in Upper Italy. The monuments which have already come to light are of such importance that I propose to write a third volume on the Italians from the stone age to the first Hellenic colonies. In order to avoid the dryness of a purely technical work, and to make this volume more interesting to the general reader, I have kept the chapters in the form of essays, in which are related the things seen and lived through; and I hope that sufficient local colour is retained to enable the reader to follow the traces of the expeditions made and to participate in the feelings of one who leaves the old road of written history and makes his way through the ruins of the monuments up the stream of real history, unmodified by legend and illuminated only by the new light shining from the excavations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.