22 Movie Quotes about Archaeology (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Aug 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about archaeology, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

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

Boris Karloff as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932)

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

Boris Karloff as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932)

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

Boris Karloff as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932)

14 It seems an archaeologist had come to this remote place to translate and study his latest find.

Quote from Army of Darkness (1992)

15 See, over the last two years, the Nazis have had teams of archeologists running around the world looking for all kinds of religious artifacts.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark

16 I hear you're planning another archaeological expedition.

Charlton Heston as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968)

17 Your archaeological theories have no bearing on the disposition of this creature.

Charlton Heston as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968)

18 It was at this level I discovered cutting tools and arrowheads of quartz and the fossilized bones of carnivorous gorillas.

Charlton Heston as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968)

19 It's the Cross of Coronado. Cortez gave it to him in 1520.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

20 Well, we are on the brink of the recovery of the greatest artifact in the history of mankind.

Julian Glover as Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

22 Movie Quotes about Archaeology (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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