“ Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, evEryThing is cleared away very car… Agatha Christie
“ An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. Agatha Christie
“ The fullest account we have of Oannes is found in surviving fragments of the works of a Babylonian priest called Berossos who wrote in the third century BC. [...] Oannes did not do his work alone but… Graham Hancock
“ The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record! James C. Scott
“ Invisibility--there are things we can't see now, that are there, that are embedded, that it really takes time in order to be able to see. There are many ghosts that are lurking around and lingering th… Lynn Hershman Leeson
“ Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, [...] came to teach [the ancient inhabitants of Mexico] the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary to build temples. Although this deity is frequ… Graham Hancock
“ To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. Spyridon Marinatos
“ What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once stood here--a temple dedicated to (usually contracted to ), t… Graham Hancock
“ [At Gunung Padang] First, the drill cores contained evidence--fragments of worked columnar basalt--that more man-made megalithic structures lay far beneath the surface. Secondly, the organic materials… Graham Hancock
“ Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archae… Augustus Pitt Rivers
