Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.
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've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
History may be accurate, but archaeology is precise.
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.
I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.
Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.
Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.
I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.
As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.
