An archaeologist is a ghoul with credentials.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I…

— Jennifer Egan

“Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, [...] came to teach [the ancient inhabitants of Mexico] the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary to build…

— Graham Hancock

“What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once…

— Graham Hancock

Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have…

— Kent V. Flannery

Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding…

— Jon Foreman

We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to…

— Maureen Duffy

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did…

— Paul Virilio

We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus…

— James W. Loewen

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

— Herb Pomeroy

“History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're standin at…

— Stephen King

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest…

— Cornel West

“Dying is easy, beloved. It is living that is difficult. The secret is to live fully, to embrace every instant of existence, beautiful and…

— Leonide Martin

“We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever more complex and sophisticated, so this is naturally what…

— Graham Hancock

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

— Allan Bloom