Karolina

“The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

“Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia

“It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

“I tell my students that the past is an immense ocean which we can neither sail on nor dive down into. We are stuck to our shore, which is the present. Out on the surface we can see the past of the history books, the storms and the shipwrecks, but of what happened in the far past, down in the deeps of that ocean, we have nothing to go on except the shells and bones it chooses to wash up at our feet. Why bother, then? What does it matter? It matters because that ocean is where we came from. Those seas are in our blood.”
― Peter Dickinson, A Bone from a Dry Sea