History Quote by Tony Robinson

Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not…

— Alice Roberts

Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible…

— Margaret Murray

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

I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how the past…

— Graham Hancock

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient…

— Camille Paglia

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

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide…

— Margaret Murray

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

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

— Doug Scott

“History is the archaeology of the present and future.”

— Patrick Mendis

I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers…

— Alice Roberts

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

— Michael Rostovtzeff