Quotes About Excavation

I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.

You must think it strange that I'm digging up my grandfather." "Not at all. I'm sure many young men dig up their grandfathers.

A Robbins Urban TBM 250. TBM stands for Tunnel Boring Machine.

They were dismantling their habits and routines, and it was like pulling up floorboards and finding joy underneath.

I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.

What are we supposed to be looking for? Stanley asked him. You're not looking for anything. You're digging to build character. It's just if you find anything, the Warden would like to know about it.

archaeological riddles

To discover fossils, he told himself, was to reclaim answers to important questions.

the rich smells would soon get them digging with their front feet and the well-defined hearths seen in the excavation trenches would rapidly be disturbed beyond recognition.

Objects recovered have been identified as 'Egyptian, Nubian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Cypriot, Mycenaean, Italian, Balkan, and Baltic

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

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

The exhumation of your soul will be successful only if you dig one deep hole rather than a lot of shallow ones.

If I told you that you had three gold bricks in your backyard, would you continue to dig until you found them? I would!

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

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!

We have probed the earth excavated it burned it ripped things from it buried things in it----that does not fit my definition of a good tenant . If we were here on a month to month basis we would have been evicted long ago

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for the trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

This is the Mona Lisa of paleontology.