"We can no longer think of the so-called Fertile Crescent of Sumeria as the cradle of civilization. What seems more li…"

"Ancient Egypt, like that of the Olmecs (Bolivia), emerged all at once and fully formed. Indeed, the period of transit…"

"Indian thought has traditionally regarded history and prehistory in cyclical rather than linear terms. In the West ti…"

"We might feel very sure that there is no more to reality that the material world in which we live, but we cannot prov…"

"We have severed our connection to spirit. That's what our society has done. It has sought to persuade us that the mat…"

"If ever a society could be said to meet all the mythological criteria of the next lost civilization—a society that ti…"

"Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are workin…"

"Science in the twenty-first century does not encourage scientists to take risks in their pursuit of "the facts"—parti…"

"After the first Neanderthal skeletal remains were identified in Europe in the nineteenth century it was, for a very l…"

"Will books, as we know them, come to an end? Yes, absolutely, within 25 years the digital revolution will bring about…"