Altars Quote by Tacitus

“Except on the tablets of Tell el-Amarna, the word 'Hebrews' has not been found in the early monuments of the east. This identification is…

— John Courtenay James

“landmarks were “a little shabby.” Half the gilding was gone from the dome of Les Invalides, where Napoleon was buried. The same was true…

— David McCullough

“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

“The Parthenon was 228 feet long by 101 broad, and 64 feet high; the porticoes at each end had a double row of eight…

— Nancy R E Meugens Bell

Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors…

— James Joyce

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

— Roger Zelazny

“He that looks for urns and old sepulchral relicks, must not seek them in the ruins of temples, where no religion anciently placed them.…

— Thomas Browne

“In view of the years of careful study that have been devoted to Stonehenge it may seem unlikely that any more information could be…

— Richard Brinckerhoff

“How the resurrection of Hittites has been accomplished, by putting together the fragmentary evidence of Egyptian and Assyrian inscriptions, of strange-looking monuments in Asia…

— A. H. SAYCE

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

Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither…

— Eero Saarinen

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