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Geoffrey Bibby Quotes

1917–2001 England

Thomas Geoffrey Bibby (14 October 1917 – 6 February 2001) was an English-born archaeologist.

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We are here dealing with a thousand years. And a thousand years is, after all, but fourteen lifetimes measured by the conventional scale of threescore years and ten.

Four Thousand Years Ago (1961)

Every archaeologist knows in his heart why he digs. He digs, in pity and humility, that the dead may live again, that what is past may not be forever lost, that something may be salvaged from the wreck of ages.

The Testimony of the Spade (1956)

A puzzle remained. Why had Dilmun used the standard weights of the Indus Valley? The Babylonians and Sumerians used a completely different system... Either the first commercial impulses to have reached Dilmun must have come not from Mesopotamia but from India, or else India was a far more important commercial connection with Dilmun than was Mesopotamia.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Geoffrey Bibby (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.