Quotes About Archaeology

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.

Phaistos Disk.

Lots of archaeology. Most of it hidden. Overgrown castle mounds and tumps. And hill forts. No official history – like no National Trust stuff, but it's all around you, unlabelled. You need to know what you're looking for. I like that.

history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains

I love history, Tom. All those old things people dig up. Just ordinary things that were once used by ordinary people, but made special by time.

The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon.

In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.

When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to visualize that is to pull back in space... It allows us to see hidden temples and tombs and pyramids and even entire settlements.

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

There are no traces of the Hittites at Shechem or on the eastern side of the Jordan

We must regard the Amorites as the earlier population, among a part of whom the Hittites in later days settled and intermarried.

I thought you'd come back to get married,' he said with a grin. 'Not to carry out an archaeological project.' 'Cut out that getting married stuff,' I said, and in this way we smilingly slid past the troublesome moment.

The oldest genome of a European comes from a 37,000-year-old square-jawed man who washed up on the banks of the mighty River Don in southern Russia. He's called Kostenki today, and his DNA showed similarities with more recent European hunter-gatherers, as far afield as in Spain 30,000 years later

It is the oldest depiction of the human body.

According to traditional paleoanthropology based on bones, by the time Homo sapiens reached Europe, probably around 60,000 years ago, the Neanderthals were already there and well established, albeit in small communities.

Archaeology reveals that about one out of three or four nomad women of the steppes was an active warrior buried with her weapons.

The rebels issued coins showing the Italian Bull goring the Roman Wolf. Archaeologists have also discovered gold Italian coins similar to Mithradates' Pontic coins, showing Dionysus, an allusion to Mithradates' nickname and a symbol of rebellion against Rome.17

Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively.

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

The first book I opened looked promising—Mummies and Their Secrets by Sir Lynn N. Bandage.

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

I can't tell you the number of times I've been walking over an archaeological site. And you can't see anything on the ground, and pull back hundreds of miles in space, and all of a sudden you can see streets and roads and houses and even pyramids.