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Archaeology Quotes

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

Mortimer Wheeler
Science, Vendetta, Archaeology

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

Michael Ondaatje
Busy, Archaeology

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

Michael Rostovtzeff
Writing, Helping, Archaeology

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

Doug Scott
May, Archaeology, Accurate
"Organized hunts for Civil War relics raise dust between participants, historians" by Brigid Schulte, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2006.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

Zbigniew Herbert
Writing, Transformation, Archaeology
Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana Carpenter (1985). “Raport z oblezonego miasta i inne wiersze”, Ecco Pr

Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.

Mortimer Wheeler
Blow, Dust, Archaeology

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

Frank Moore Cross
Giving, May, Archaeology
Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

Robert Polidori
Interesting, Looks, Archaeology

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

Catherine Fisher
Jobs, Archaeology, Enjoyed
"Incarceron Author Catherine Fisher on Writing Her Prison Novel". Interview with Maryann Yin, www.adweek.com. December 23, 2010.

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