Archaeological Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for…
— Paul Virilio
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.…
— Loren Eiseley
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Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel…
— Marija Gimbutas
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My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted…
— Jean M. Auel
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Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the…
— Agatha Christie
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On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect…
— Millar Burrows
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
— Zahi Hawass
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Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the…
— Spencer Wells
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My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence…
— Gay Talese
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
— Vicente Fox
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The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the…
— Charlie Campbell
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Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.
— Charlie Campbell
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I would really love to go on an archaeological dig.
— Megan Fox
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One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
— Russell Hoban
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Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery…
— Sarah Parcak
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I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.
— Sarah Parcak
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Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical…
— Joseph Needham
Who Wrote These Archaeological Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Archaeological Quotes as follows: