Archaeologists Quote by Charles Thomas Newton

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid…

— Walter Benjamin

“Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want…

— Jim Bishop

To mend a broken heart sometimes you gotta be a archaeologist, you have to dig deep and search for what still remains

— Brian DeGroff

“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing…

— Charles Darwin

“That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery, ornamental tombs,…

— Kate Atkinson

“I just wish that you had made it beyond the bounds of this cold little radius, that when the archaeologists brush off this layer…

— Paul Harding

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up…

— William Ellery Channing

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

— Charles Thomas Newton

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned…

— Paul Di Filippo

“He would wake to see the towers and minarets printed on the exhausted, dust-powdered sky, and see as if en montage on them the…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Perhaps it’s not a matter of unimportant sites, but unimportant archaeologists.”

— Douglas Preston