The city of Agrigento, ancient Akragas, is on the south coast of Sicily. In the 4th and 5th centuries BCE great temples were built there in the Doric style, and today their impressive ruins can be seen in the legendary ‘Valley of the Temples’. This picture shows the Temple of Hera in the distance, but also shows the arched niche of an early Christian tomb that was carved into the cliffs that also served as part of the city’s defenses. The Christians carved so many tombs, however, that the cliff walls began to break apart and fall, as this one did, down the hillside.