Available Quote by James Henry Breasted

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

— Arthur Erickson

“And I shared with all Westerners a Greek heritage: If ancient Greece was the cradle of Western civilization, I think it fair to say…

— Esther Lightcap Meek

In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

— John Henrik Clarke

“It might therefore be urged that the whole Neolithic population was "Mediterranean" by its skull-form and body-structure, and specifically "Nilotic" (indigenous Egyptian) in its…

— Leonard William King

“Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization”

— Stjepan Mestrovic

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of…

— Thomas Bulfinch

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are…

— Doris Lessing

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

— Doug Scott

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

— Bertrand Russell

Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has…

— Lucio Russo