Burial Quote by James Chiles

We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even…

— Sarah Parcak

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

— Bruce Sterling

“We do not want to destroy unnecessarily what men spent so much time and care and skill in making... for these examples of craftsmanship…

— Ronald Balfour British Monuments Man

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

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures…

— Johan Huizinga

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

— Walter Scott

“A great way to steal other people’s stuff is to build a vault and have them voluntarily store their own stuff there.”

— Jarod Kintz

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had…

— John Henrik Clarke

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no…

— Lucretius

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of…

— Charles Francis Richter

Today is much more an age of greed

— Richard Rogers

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

— Anthony Sampson