Dating Quote by Bettany Hughes

[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece.…

— Warren MacKenzie

I guess what this is reflecting is my own search for answers that I can't find. Frank [Moore Cross] and I have examined a…

— Frank Moore Cross

It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.

— Mary Beard

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of…

— Bayard Taylor

The obscurest epoch is today.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“...carved marble figures in strata that "suggests the characters were made by intelligent humans from the distant past," a section of gold thread found…

— Joseph P. Farrell

“The oldest Phoenician inscriptions date from around 1100 BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was…

— Agatha Christie

In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively that the…

— Warren MacKenzie

“Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures.…

— Elisabeth Lenk

“I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at the top…

— Claudia Hammond

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

— Basil Bunting