Antiquity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

— John Webster

“The ancients Knew exactly what they were doing. There is no mystery on why the monuments around the word are placed where they are.…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found…

— Henry David Thoreau

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl,…

— Erasmus Darwin

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments…

— John Lothrop Motley

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

In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in…

— Charles Lyell

It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past,…

— Patrick Geddes

“He'd never seen it in person before (the main quarry); it was larger than he'd expected. When he'd first taken an interest, some decades…

— Max Barry

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to…

— Zahi Hawass

“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing from the…

— Kathleen Jamie