Some Interesting Quotations to Compare and Contrast

"many times folklore helps our studies. You’ll be surprised how many clues to history are intermingled with the old legends" Andy Peterson; The Spring: 1989

"one of the great dangers in archaeology…not the life and limb although that does sometimes take place…I’m talking about folklore" Indiana Jones; Raiders of the Lost Ark: 1981)

"archaeology is our religion" Belloq; Raiders of the Lost Ark: 1981

"I though archaeologists were funny little men searching for their mummies." Dance Hall Girl; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: 1984

"Archaeology is the study for facts, not truth. If it’s truth you want, philosophy class is right down the hall." Indiana Jones; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: 1989

"Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library." Indiana Jones; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: 1989

"Forget any ideas about lost cities, exotic travel and digging up the world…we do not follow maps to buried treasure and x never ever marks the spot" Indiana Jones; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: 1989

"The quest for the Grail is not archaeology, it’s a race against evil." Professor Jones; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: 1989

"Method is everything in archaeology" Sir Joseph Whemple; The Mummy: 1932

"We didn’t come to Egypt to dig for medals! Much more is to be learned form studying bits of broken pottery than from all the sensational finds. Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our own curiosity." Sir Joseph Whemple; The Mummy: 1932

"Do not approach the nameless one, lest your soul be withered." Inscription on Queen Kara’s tomb; The Awakening: 1980

"Death will come on swift pinions to those who disturb the rest of the Pharaoh" Ceram 1971: 206

"Death…eternal punishment for anyone who opens this casket…in the name of Amon-Re, King of the Gods." Curse on casket; The Mummy: 1932

"There is a curse upon this chest…death will come on swift wings to whomsoever opens this chest" The Mummy: 1999

"It’s adventure time!" Hillary (Lara Croft’s butler); Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2001

"don't expect to get rich" (Bahn 1996: 4)

"the researches of archaeologists remain surprisingly unfamiliar to the public, which pictures the archaeologist, as a gray-bearded treasure hunter, perpetually digging around pyramids" Fagan 1978: 4

"Archaeology can be very boring, distressing and physically uncomfortable" Johnson 1991: 1