Archaeologists Quote by Karl Pilkington

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost,…

— Sarah Parcak

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of…

— Agatha Christie

These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until…

— Howard Carter

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When…

— Henry David Thoreau

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up…

— Griffin Jay

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody actually knows…

— Tony Robinson

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

— Francis Bacon

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

— Ken Burns

“And how to stop the rot? How to salvage something from time's passage? How long before the map makers decide to erase this structure…

— richard skelton

“Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.

— Kate Bush

“Seth and I used to like to picture how our world would look to visitors someday, maybe a thousand years in the future, after…

— Karen Thompson Walker