On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably…

“Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?”

— Paul Russell

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or chymical; whether…

— Charles Thomas Newton

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

— John Barrymore

“Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything…

— Graham Hancock

I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through the palm…

— Anonymous

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist…

— Rob Bell

[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older…

— Nigel Dennis

I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim…

— Anonymous

We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world

— Yosef Abramowitz

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up…

— Griffin Jay

I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears.…

— Paul Caponigro

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

— Kazimir Malevich

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

— Louise Bernikow

Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.

— Stephen Kinzer