{"quotes":[{"text":"The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.","author":"Bal Gangadhar Tilak","tags":["archaeology","geology","history"],"id":4476,"author_id":"Bal+Gangadhar+Tilak"},{"text":"Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !","author":"Rajib Mukherjee","tags":["archaeology","conspiracy","crime-fiction","dark","historical-fiction","murder","mystery","thriller"],"id":17510,"author_id":"Rajib+Mukherjee"},{"text":"I have a habit of being an archaeologist of my own past, a sentimental collector of personal artefacts which may at first glance appear random, but each of which holds a unique significance. As the years pass me by, I find that the number of objects within my possession begins to accumulate. A torn map. A sealed letter. A boat full of paper animals. Each item encapsulates within itself a story, akin to an outward manifestation of my inner journey.","author":"Agnes Chew","tags":["archaeology","collecting","nostalgia"],"id":61558,"author_id":"Agnes+Chew"},{"text":"Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into a majestic wonder.","author":"Edward Dawson","tags":["archaeology","jordan","middle-east","petra","travel"],"id":68462,"author_id":"Edward+Dawson"},{"text":"Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today.","author":"Gillian Hovell","tags":["archaeology","britain","bronze-age","dark-ages","history","hovell","iron-age","medieval","roman","stone-age"],"id":138967,"author_id":"Gillian+Hovell"},{"text":"Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.","author":"Samuel Noah Kramer","tags":["archaeology","history","religious-history","womens-history"],"id":166053,"author_id":"Samuel+Noah+Kramer"},{"text":"Somewhere beyond Tibet, among the icy peaks and secluded valleys of Central Asia, there lies an inaccessible paradise, a place of universal wisdom and ineffable peace called Shambhala . . . It is inhabited by adepts from every race and culture who form an inner circle of humanity secretly guiding its evolution.In that place, so the legends say, sages have existed since the beginning of human history in a valley of supreme beatitude that is sheltered from the icy arctic winds and where the climate is always warm and temperate, the sun always shines, the gentle airs are always beneficent and nature flowers luxuriantly.","author":"Victoria Le Page","tags":["anthropology","archaeology","history","shambhala","tibet"],"id":170470,"author_id":"Victoria+Le+Page"},{"text":"Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.","author":"Steve Dustcircle","tags":["archaeology","atheism","bible"],"id":171348,"author_id":"Steve+Dustcircle"},{"text":"THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs of animal bone Lie smashed and scattered round Under the clover leaves And slivers of flint seem to grow Like white leaves among green. In the wind, the chestnut heaves Where a man's grave has been. Whatever the barrow held Once, has been taken away: A hollow of nettles and dock Lies at the centre, filled With rain from a sky so grey It reflects nothing at all. I poke in the crumbled rock For something they left behind But after that funeral There is nothing at all to find. On the map in front of me The gothic letters pick out Dozens of tombs like this, Breached, plundered, left empty, No fragments littered about Of a dead and buried race In the margins of histories. No fragments: these splintered bones Construct no human face, These stones are simply stones. In museums their urns lie Behind glass, and their shaped flints Are labelled like butterflies. All that they did was die, And all that has happened since Means nothing to this place.Above long clouds, the skiesTurn to a brilliant redAnd show in the water's faceOne living, and not these dead.' — Anthony Thwaite, from The Owl In The Tree.","author":"Anthony Thwaite","tags":["archaeology","burial","death","funeral","grave","living"],"id":180768,"author_id":"Anthony+Thwaite"},{"text":"Some sinister secret lay buried in the heart of the graveyard!","author":"Rajib Mukherjee","tags":["archaeology","conspiracy","crime","dark","murder","mystery-suspense","thriller"],"id":288237,"author_id":"Rajib+Mukherjee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}