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On Excavating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

J. P. Droop
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Mycenae, Knossos, Ur of the Chaldees—Schliemann, Arthur Evans, Woolley—these are names which leap to the mind at any mention of excavation, names glamorous with the romance of discovering by some magic of Prospero's new civilizations old beyond the historian's dreams. But excavating is not all romance, not all the discovery of the undreamed of. Much good work without any glamour has been done by adding one small fact here to another small fact there. And as for the magician's wand the true magic lies in the faith and imagination of those great diggers.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , May 1932 , pp. 143 - 150
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1932

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