Arthur Weigall Quote

An archaeologist must be a historian. He must conjure up the past; he must play the Witch of Endor. His lists and indices, his catalogues and notebooks, must be but the spells which he uses to invoke the dead.


The Glory of the Pharaohs - Chapter I (p. 19), G. Putnam's Sons. 1923


An archaeologist must be a historian. He must conjure up the past; he must play the Witch of Endor. His lists and indices, his catalogues and...

An archaeologist must be a historian. He must conjure up the past; he must play the Witch of Endor. His lists and indices, his catalogues and...

An archaeologist must be a historian. He must conjure up the past; he must play the Witch of Endor. His lists and indices, his catalogues and...

An archaeologist must be a historian. He must conjure up the past; he must play the Witch of Endor. His lists and indices, his catalogues and...