Ashes Quote by Thomas Carlyle

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

— Doug Scott

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

— Joe Abercrombie

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

— Martin Heidegger

History is a bucket of ashes.

— Samuel Butler

“Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time.”

— Vernor Vinge

If I ever write a book on "How True Is the Bible?" I'll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the…

— Frank Moore Cross

“Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that…

— Ron Mayes

“Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.”

— Steve Dustcircle

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

— Charles Thomas Newton

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out…

— Francis Bacon

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years…

— Henry David Thoreau

“One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great…

— Hudson Stuck