Quotes About Archaeology

Crete is home to an advanced civilisation that will be dubbed 'Minoan'

the island's legendary king, Minos, when its remains are discovered three and a half millennia later.

One of the first Greek words to be recognised in Linear B was represented

The Minoans at this time had spread their influence right across the southern Aegean.

This is the kingdom of the Hittites.

the distant origin of the Greek language may reach all the way back to the beginning of the period that we call the Neolithic, or New Stone Age.

perhaps even thousands, before our imagined Aegean dawn in the year 1500 BCE.

Buried in what he termed 'shaft graves', Schliemann uncovered the remains of the families

that had ruled there between about 1600 and 1450 BCE.

Buried with them was a fearsome array of swords, daggers, and spearpoints

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill

The remains of what might be the earliest temple dedicated to Hindu worship have been located through excavations at Besnagar.

Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is memory but near and far events spread and smoothed beneath the present's surface.

In 1908 a French archaeologist declared that a Great Goddess concerned with death and fertility had been worshipped by all the Neolithic peoples of Europe and the Near East, and that her cult had been focused above all on images of her eyes and breasts. This enabled him to use any figure or symbol on a Neolithic site which could be interpreted as representing an eye or a breast as proof of that cult.

Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

the white stain of chalk mixed with the clay topsoil zigzagging across the freshly-turned earth, the tell-tale marks of the German trenches from which ***** had been enfiladed. Fifty ploughings and fifty harvests had failed to erase those marks, so maybe they were etched into the land for all time, just like the spadework of the ancient peoples which the archaeologists studied with such fervour.

I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that?

The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

What would the world say if the Globe, now that it has at last been found, is not excavated?

I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.

Vananenud raamatutest oma lastele raamatukogu rajamist saab õigustada ainult samamoodi, nagu õigustatakse varemete säilitamist: arheoloogiaga.

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!