Archaeologists Quote by Conan O'Brien

One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971) was excavating…

— Michael Tsarion

“Haven't I heard of men more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from Egypt in cases covered with pictures?" "You…

— Jules Verne

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world…

— Malcolm Gladwell

As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so…

— Thomas Sydenham

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

— Zahi Hawass

“[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest] In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is a certain…

— Plato

“In the Egyptian papyri the 'Jews' are frequently called 'Aramaeans'.”

— John Courtenay James

“As the Egyptians say, Ramses can hear a whisper across the Nile.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Today there is a place called Egypt, but the Egyptian people are not masters there; long since they have been broken by conquest, and…

— Will Durant

Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering…

— Lord Byron