In 1927-8 she was a student at the British School at Athens and assisted with excavations in Macedonia . She settled in Oxford and in 1929 by to study for the Diploma in Classical Archaeology , which she obtained in 1932 . Later , in 1934 , she went on to acquire a B. Litt . with a dissertation on “ the Barony of Odysseus . ” Sylvia returned to England late in August 1939 and found war work in London , initially for Naval Hydrography . Later she worked with fire-fighting at night . By the spring of 1947 she was able to return to her passion where she was fully occupied in the restoration of the museums at Vathy and Stavros after the 1953 Ionian earthquake
1953 Ionian earthquake
1953 Ionian earthquake
Sylvia Benton