Sarah Parcak Quotes

We've found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now this is a problem as old as human beings. People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.

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

These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov.

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.

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

We can tell from the imagery a tomb was looted from a particular period of time, and we can alert INTERPOL to watch out for antiquities from that time that may be offered for sale.

I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place!

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?

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

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home?

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.