“That's how archaeology has always been done. A union between those with the money and those with the skills.”
― The Keepsake
― The Keepsake
“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' it was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things.”
― The Tomb of Tutankhamen
― The Tomb of Tutankhamen
“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.”
― A Bone from a Dry Sea
― A Bone from a Dry Sea
“Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today”
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“The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible.”
― Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
― Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
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