"Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the Parthenon-it rises before us a majestic presence in the piled up arches of the Coliseum-it lurks an unsuspected treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries-it is embodied in all the looms of religions, of races, of families."

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Source : Charles Thomas Newton (2010). “Essays on Art and Archaeology”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

Charles Thomas Newton

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