Archaeology Quote by Tony Robinson

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

We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even…

— Sarah Parcak

In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity." Dead archaeology is the driest dust…

— Mortimer Wheeler

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want…

— Jim Bishop

Over the years, we have witnessed massive changes and degradation to Egypt's natural heritage. It's shocking how one generation's decisions about natural resources is…

— Mindy Baha El Din

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are…

— Henry David Thoreau

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

— Kim Wilde

Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against…

— Sarah Parcak

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this…

— Bruce Babbitt

“The territory through which we passed had been overbuilt in the days over the Secular Ancients, but only a few traces of that exuberant…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity…

— John Burnside

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