On the Cycladic island of Antiparos in early 1884, the Bents were shown some prehistoric graves by local mining engineers, Robert and John Swan.[20] Theodore Bent undertook amateur archaeological investigations at two sites on the island and returned to London with skeletal remnants which are now in the Natural History Museum, and many ceramic, stone and obsidian finds that now form a significant part of the British Museum’s Cycladic collection; within a few months he had published the material[21] and his career as an archaeologist/ethnographer, and in which his wife was to be central, was launched.