It [archaeology] is to the skeleton of a former age that archaeology restores the flesh and the sinews and the lineaments that distinguish it from the countless centuries of which it is a link, clothes it in the very garments that it wore, and rebuilds the very home in which it dwelt.
Speeches of Edward, Lord Lytton, Chapter XXXIV (p. 193), William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh, Scotland. 1874
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