"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."

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"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."

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"It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb."

Heart, Open

"Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job."

Love, Job, Passion

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

Ideas, Mind, Open, Past

"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."

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"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

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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"

Charles Anthon, American Writer

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"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."

Cecil Beaton, English Photographer

Gold, Islands, Sky

"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."

Jeff Bezos, American Businessman

Gold, Innovation, Now, Pretty

"Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine."

Isabella Bird, English Writer

Gold, Medicine, Weight, Worth

"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."

Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet

Gold, Will

"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."

Tim Cahill, Australian Athlete

Gold, Mystery

"I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read."

Jonathan Carroll, American Author

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"I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude."

Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet

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"To shipbrokers, coal was black gold."

Roald Dahl, British Novelist

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