Sarah Parcak Quotes

Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

I'm looking at looting photos from space, and there are people putting their lives on the line every day protecting their heritage. I call these people the real culture heroes.

That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

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.

You don't let a historic site rot.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

The desire to restore everything indiscriminately to its ancient condition is neither wise nor praiseworthy.

The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

You re being handed a national treasure. Your main responsibility is that whenever you may leave it, it still remains a national treasure.

My dream is to map every archaeological site in the world because, if we can do that, then we have this massive global data base that all sorts of global heritage organizations and heritage organizations within countries can use, and they can use that information to protect what's there.