Archaeology Quotes

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into 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.

I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.