Svante Paabo Quotes

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.

I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.

I would really love to go on an archaeological dig.

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

You never know what your next dig is going to find.

Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.

I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that.

I'm going on an adventure!

Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike.

Trust what you see and go play.

I like to find adventure.

I remember the location of 'Apoorva Sahodarangal.' As a kid, it was an exciting location to be in.

I like going on adventures or excursions.

I have to shoot and work out and play and discover all the time.

A new challenge, to me, is really exciting.

Going out into the world, I do feel like a kid in a candy store.

I was always obsessed with ancient Egypt, but any time you go back to wouldn't be as good for women as now - so it might be a quick visit.

One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.