The Bible is an ancient text from an ancient context. We live thousands of miles and thousands of years away from that… — Randall Price Copy Share Image
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding… — Adam Clayton Copy Share Image
“The Christian church, the Christian form of worship, was not invented by the fathers of the church. It was all taken in… — G.I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place. — Anthony F. C. Wallace Copy Share Image
As anyone who has watched Time Team will know, the context is all in archaeology. — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. — Michael Rostovtzeff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
“Meteorology . . . is quite as “scientific” as geology and far more so than archaeology—it actually makes more use of scientific… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“In view of the years of careful study that have been devoted to Stonehenge it may seem unlikely that any more information… — Richard Brinckerhoff Copy Share Image
I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
“Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today” — Gillian Hovell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon,… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed… — Margaret Murray Copy Share Image
