"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."

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"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."

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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."

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"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."

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

Will,

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

Gold,

"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."

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"I will reveal the secrets behind these doors."

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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

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"Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta."

Brian Aldiss, English Writer

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"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested."

Hervey Allen, American Author

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"That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization."

John Amery, British Politician

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"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."

Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli Novelist

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"It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages."

Ibrahim Babangida, Nigerian Statesman

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"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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"A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment."

Walter Bagehot, English Author

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