"The past slips from our grasp. It leaves……" — Igor Stravinsky

"The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration."

— Igor Stravinsky

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In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Thomas R. Pickering
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I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of… — Simon McBurney
The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that… — Margaret Murray
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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are… — Jim Bishop

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