In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

After an expedition in 1890 to Cilicia Trachea where he obtained a valuable collection of inscriptions Bent spent a year in South Africa with the object by investigation of some of the ruins in Mashonaland of throwing light on the vexed question of their origin and on the early history of East Africa. In 1879 he publiJames Theodore Bentd a book on the republic of San Marino entitled A Freak of Freedom and was made a citizen of San Marino; in the following year appeared Genoa: How the Republic Rose and Fell and in 188x a Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Bent described his work in The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland (1892).