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Excerpt from Excavations at the Heraion of Argos, 1892 <p>View of site of the second temple before the excavations. The photograph was taken from the north-west corner of the terrace looking south-east. <p>View of the excavations at west end of the 'second temple during the third week. Taken from a point to the north-west of the terrace. Workmen are massed on the top of the terrace, those to our left of the centre standing on the west foundation wall of the temple. The black layer referred to above ran up towards the temple beginning about where the two middle casts are standing below. Where the workmen stand lowest in a trench to our right a broad cutting was subsequently carried on to join the large cutting in the centre; while this large cutting in its turn was carried up to the foundation walls of the temple. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.