Archaeology Quotes

“Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.”

— Steve Dustcircle

I studied archaeology.

— Cole Sprouse

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

— Michael Ondaatje

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

— Anonymous

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

— Doug Scott

As anyone who has watched Time Team will know, the context is all in archaeology.

— Tony Robinson

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

— Mortimer Wheeler

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

— Clifton Fadiman

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.

— Tana French

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

— Zbigniew Herbert

Every child thinks archaeology is about digging up land to find dinosaur remains and gold. I had the same intentions.

— Bhuvan Bam

I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

— Robert Polidori

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

— Charles Thomas Newton

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

— Anthony F. C. Wallace

“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found…

— James Henry Breasted

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody…

— Tony Robinson

In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity." Dead archaeology is the…

— Mortimer Wheeler

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.

— Charlie Campbell

I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep…

— Philippe Falardeau

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and…

— Sarah Parcak

“In view of the years of careful study that have been devoted to Stonehenge it may seem unlikely that any more information…

— Richard Brinckerhoff

I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how…

— Graham Hancock

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses…

— W. H. Auden

I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I…

— Sloane Crosley

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to…

— Paul Di Filippo

If my career doesn't work out as a violinist, I want to become an archaeologist. I've read about paleontology, too - that's…

— Hilary Hahn

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually…

— Igor Stravinsky

If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable, according to the canons of historical research, to conclude…

— Paul L. Maier

“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great…

— Austen Henry Layard

With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge…

— Arthur Demarest

Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and…

— Edith Hall

“The likelihood that computer algorithms will displace archaeologists by 2033 is only 0.7 per cent, because their job requires highly sophisticated types…

— Yuval Noah Harari

While many have doubted the accuracy of the Bible, time and continued research have consistently demonstrated that the Word of God is…

— Norman Geisler

I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to…

— Simon McBurney

“Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today”

— Gillian Hovell

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

— Robert Ballard

“Aside from criminology, I’d say archaeology has the highest body count.”

— Jarod Kintz

“History is the archaeology of the present and future.”

— Patrick Mendis

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

— Anonymous