Legends and folklores are the memories of ancient…

“In West African and Caribbean folklores the role falls to Anansi, a spider who sometimes imparts knowledge or wisdom—and sometimes casts doubt or seeds…

— Gabriella Coleman

“A moment ago, when he entered this human aviary, the pictures, modestly enclosed in four wooden mouldings, remained flat and silent before him; in…

— Anonymous

“Isolationists believed that the ancient civilizations all developed independent of one another. Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, Egypt—all crossed a threshold into civilization about…

— Robert Doherty

“Nature is technological relic of ancient civilizations.”

— Toba Beta

“The Sphinx, so old that it had watched the childhood of the world, plunged in unbroken contemplation, had seen civilizations rise to glory and…

— Paul Brunton

Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even…

— Paul Davies

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics.…

— Tim Blake Nelson

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“The ancient bones of our ancestors are like the roots of a great tree, reminding us to stay firmly grounded in our history. Yet…

— Raigon Stanley

“A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain today, was held by many great philosophers and scientists who…

— David Flynn

“Secundus might lie rotting in his grave, but his relatives and followers yet lived. They believed the lies that held Gwenwhyfar responsible for the…

— Jennifer McKeithen

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I…

— Adolf Hitler

The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

— David Kim

And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the…

— Stephen Gardiner