"As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence."

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"As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence."

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"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected."

Saying, Will

"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."

Science, People, Mystery, Waiting

"Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons."

Needs,

"The sphinx will always have to be looked after."

Will,

"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet."

Will,

"I will reveal the secrets behind these doors."

Secrets, Will

"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."

Care, Foreigners, Majority

"I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them."

People, Media, Nothing, Running

"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."

World,

"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization."

Civilization, Culture

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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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"It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor."

Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist

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