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"The best prophet of the future is the past".
Lord George Gordon Byron
Archaeological History
The exact origins of archaeology as a discipline are
uncertain. Excavations of ancient monuments and the collection of
antiquities have been taking place for thousands of years. The first
tentative step forward towards archaeology as a
science took place during the
Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, in
Europe
in the 17th and 18th centuriesSource:
Wikipedia
History of Archaeology: The
Series The history of archaeology is a long and
checkered one. If there is anything archaeology teaches us, it is to
look to the past to learn from our mistakes ...