As I studied the e-mail from Glenn Milne, I knew just how ancient the U-shaped structure [found a few kilometers away from the Indian coast] really might be - at least 11,000 years old. That's 6000 ye...
Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.
If we impose on a map of the earth a 'world grid' with Giza (not Greenwich) as its prime meridian, then hidden relationships become immediately apparent between sites that previously seemed to be on a...
Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war sha...
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated...
People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale con...
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.