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Excavation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Noel F. Wheeler
Noel F. Wheeler*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Boston Expedition, Egypt
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Our only guide to the thoughts and motives of mankind is a correct interpretation of their acts; and when we are dealing with the Past our only guide to their acts lies in a correct interpretation of the results of those acts. These results are visible in their writings, buildings, paintings, and in all the other works of their hands.

Time, with all its attendant destructive agents-war, wear, and wilful destruction-has obscured the evidence onsiderably; but much still remains, though it may require labour, patience, and careful deduction to secure it.

Type
Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 4 , Issue 14 , June 1930 , pp. 173 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1930

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