Those were the great days of excavating... anything to which a fancy was taken, from a scarab to an obelisk, was just appropriated, and if there was a difference with a brother excavator, one laid for him with a gun.
Howard Carter, 1923. Quoted in Glyn Daniel, 150 Years of Archaeology, 1950, p. 156. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Appeared in Vol. 1, page 68 of Carter, Howard & Mace, A.C. The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. Doran Co., New York
Thanks to Paul Maclean, founder of the long-gone, much-lamented Archaeometallurgy web page.
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Howard Carter, 1923. Quoted in Glyn Daniel, 150 Years of Archaeology, 1950, p. 156. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Appeared in Vol. 1, page 68 of Carter, Howard & Mace, A.C. The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. Doran Co., New York
Thanks to Paul Maclean, founder of the long-gone, much-lamented Archaeometallurgy web page.
