Bronze-age Quote by Eric H. Cline

“Many things are found hidden beneath the ground. Men and kings and ancient warriors and the weapons they forged. All are eventually buried.”

— Brian Lee Durfee

“In the space of a single year, a crumbling rural village had sprouted an army town, like a great parasitical growth. The former peacetime…

— Ernst Jünger

“One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great War’s underlying…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of…

— Joseph Conrad

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here…

— Ben Hecht

You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .

— Bill Vaughan

“The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a…

— Markus Zusak

“Alas! The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas.…

— Victor Hugo

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed…

— Ferdowsi

“Weapons are inauspicious instruments, not the tools of the enlightened. When there is no choice but to use them, it is best to be…

— Sun Tzu

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years…

— Henry David Thoreau

“You can rescue someone from danger, but not from change and death; the soldier who survives the battle becomes someone else, something else, somewhere…

— Rebecca Solnit