Alexander Hardcastle, who helped resurrect Agrigento, was as famous as Howard Carter, but died in penury. Now he’s back in the spotlight
The Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, Sicily.n the 1920s, the discovery of ancient ruins in Sicily, now the largest archaeological site in the world, was celebrated with excitement in British newspapers. It was hailed with much the same level of enthusiasm as was given to Howard Carter and Arthur Evans’s excavations of the treasures of Tutankhamun and the palace of Knossos. Not a natural “showman” however, the name of the man who excavated the site, Alexander Hardcastle, then slowly faded.
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