Archaeology Quote by Richard Brinckerhoff

“Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day.”

— Knowles James Knowles

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

— Stephen Gardiner

I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or…

— Aleksandra Mir

Brandon McCaw says the archaeology of the stone monument is complex because overa period of more a 1,000 years of prehistory a huge amount…

— Brandon McCaw

I love to visit Stonehenge.

— Paolo di Canio

“We first hear of temples to the gods under the IVth Dynasty, but of the actual buildings of that period we have recovered nothing…

— Leonard William King

“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

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal…

— Henry David Thoreau

Not a stone but has its history.

— Lucan

“It was through this viewer that he got his first reply from Tralfamadore. The reply was written on Earth in huge stones on a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“With the stone question In the heads of Greek statues Who ask where their arms And legs and the tips of their noses Have…

— James Dickey