Word: heraeum
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Since the institution was founded, 13 years ago, the managing committee has received for its yearly expenses, mainly from annual subscriptions from the supporting colleges, $660,044.53, (including $5,000 which was contributed by the Archaeological Institute of America toward the excavations at the Heraeum). A permanent endowment of about $50,000 has been secured and the value of real estate which it owns in Athens is estimated...
...work of excavation has been carried on principally at Argive Heraeum and Eretria, in both of which places discoveries of a most interesting nature and scientific value were made. Professor Waldstein would rank these excavations with those at Olympia at Epidaurus, and on the Athenian Acropolis, and prospectively also with those at Delphi. The climax of research was the unearthing of the beehive tombs of the Mycenaean period, which had been sought in vain for several years. The vases found therein were nearly all in perfect preservation and the positions of the bones found massed together would indicate that...
...American School at Athens with soon resume excavation at the Heraeum of Argus and Sparta...