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After Margaret's death Arthur wandered aimlessly around Liguria ostensibly looking at Terramare Culture sites and for Neolithic remains in Ligurian caves.

Then he revisited the locations of his youthful explorations in Zagreb.

Finally he returned to live a hermit-like existence in the cabin he had built for her.

The Ashmolean no longer interested him.

He complained petulently to Fortnam in a late, childish display of sibling rivalry, that his father had had another child, his half-sister Joan.

After a year of grief the mounting tension in Crete began to attract his interest.

Knossos was now known to be a major site, thanks to Arthur's old friend and fellow journalist in Bosnia, William James Stillman.

Another old friend, Federico Halbherr, the Italian archaeologist and future excavator of Phaistos, was keeping him posted on developments at Knossos by mail.