Culture Quote by Douglas Preston

“A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.”

— P.J. Wetzelaer

“They also explain many common points in the archaeological finds of these civilizations as due to man’s genetic commonality. Thus”

— Robert Doherty

“The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations?”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“The senses assimilate the world, the maya of God.”

— Aporva Kala

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

— Douglas Preston

“Like the elite of ancient Egypt, most people in most cultures dedicate their lives to building pyramids. Only the names, shapes and sizes of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.”

— Vernor Vinge

“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been artists. You…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There were so many forms of prehistoric technology. Of those, men dig a few which fit into current society.”

— Toba Beta

“We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the…

— Bryant McGill

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

“The study of the cultures of antiquity in general, and of ancient Egypt in particular, can serve to guide us out of the secular…

— Jeremy Nadler