Arthur Weigall Quote

Dead men are not useless; and the excavator must not cheat the world of any part of its great prerequisite. The dead are the property of the living, and the archaeologist is the world's agent for the estate of the grave.

The Glory of the Pharaohs - Chapter V (p. 98), G. Putnam's Sons. 1923

Dead men are not useless; and the excavator must not cheat the world of any part of its great prerequisite. The dead are the property of the living,...

Dead men are not useless; and the excavator must not cheat the world of any part of its great prerequisite. The dead are the property of the living,...

Dead men are not useless; and the excavator must not cheat the world of any part of its great prerequisite. The dead are the property of the living,...

Dead men are not useless; and the excavator must not cheat the world of any part of its great prerequisite. The dead are the property of the living,...