Sarah Parcak Quotes

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

I would really love to go on an archaeological dig.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

History takes time... History makes memory.

… history is that which transforms documents into monuments

I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.

I want the Dead Sea, like Masada, to be part of UNESCO's world heritage.

Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not just through historical documents, but through actual physical remains - objects, buildings and the layout of our towns.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

The physical world is not going away, just items take on different meaning. Paper takes on this archival, very important meaning now that it's not the only way to communicate something.

I like to make history.

The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.

We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.