30 Movie Quotes about Archaeology with Audio – Page 2

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11 It has often puzzled me about archaeologists. Has it never occurred to them that by opening the tombs of beings who are sacred, they commit an act of desecration?

George Pastell as Mehemet Bey in The Mummy (1959)

12 Nevertheless, those tombs were sealed for all time. You're an intruder. You force your way in, you remove the remains of the long dead kings and send them to places like the British Museum, where thousands of people can stare at them.

George Pastell as Mehemet Bey in The Mummy (1959)

13 I wonder what's inside. -There's only one way to find out, lads. Start digging.

Alan Young as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales: The Movie (1990)

14 Relics? Why send all the way to Egypt for them? You've got them right here in Englefield. -Well, these come from Egypt.

Quote from The Mummy (1959)

15 Think, man, in five days, we might be looking at Ananka herself. -Or we might be looking at an empty hole in the ground.

Felix Aylmer as Stephen Banning; Raymond Huntley as Joseph Whemple in The Mummy (1959)

16 Are you interested in archaeology? -Yes, I am. Academically, that is. Not commercially.

Peter Cushing as John Banning; George Pastell as Mehemet Bey in The Mummy (1959)

17 You know what I think it was? I think he went crazy, bored beyond human endurance, messing around in this sand and these rocks.

Quote from The Mummy (1932)

18 Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our own curiosity.

Quote from The Mummy (1932)

19 Come, Dr. Muller. Surely a few thousand years in the earth would take the mumbo-jumbo off any old curse.

Quote from The Mummy (1932)

20 Method is everything in archaeology, my boy. We always deal with our finds of the day in order.

Quote from The Mummy (1932)