Archaeological Digs Quotes

I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able to have that for their whole lives, not just in middle-age.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.

The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the collection of the Museum of London, whose 30-year relationship with London mudlarks is both committed and highly regulated.

I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.

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

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

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

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.