History Quotes / AdventurerArchaeologist

-> ''"If adventure has a name, it has to be Indiana Jones"''
-->-- {{Tagline}} for ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''

-> ''"Moreover, no one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist's tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver."''
-->-- '''Andy F. Bryan''', "Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied," ''[=McSweeney's=]''

->''"Back in 1981 Bill Trotter took me to see ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' thereby sparking my long-standing interest in archaeology. Former EIC Trent Ward's mom was an amateur archaeologist and helped to cultivate this interest throughout my high school years. Once I entered college, I quickly discovered that there was a lot more to archaeology than shooting Nazis and whipping guys in turbans. My own experiences in the field of archaeology always seemed to involve an awful lot of dusting of pot sherds. (Don't call them shards.) In the true spirit of the university hierarchy it was the grad students who seemed to draw all the choice jobs that involved mine cart racing or Thuggee punching."''
-->-- [[http://pc.ign.com/articles/392/392075p1.html IGN's review]] of ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheEmperorsTomb''

->''"Archaeology is about '''facts'''. Not truth. If it's truth you're interested in, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is down the hall. ...Forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and X never, ever marks the spot."''
-->-- '''Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr.''', ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' ([[HypocriticalHumor You may now laugh]])

-->-- ''Series/StargateSG1'', "Window of Opportunity"

-> ''"Lara Croft - world's worst archaeologist. When she's not putting her foot through inestimably valuable samples of ancient pottery, she's stealing every slightly shiny thing that was ever buried with some royal dead guy and hoarding them in her basement."''
-->-- '''Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw''', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''VideoGame/TombRaiderUnderworld''

-->-- '''Prospector Whelgar''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''

-> '''Rory''': So, what kind of doctor are you?\\
'''River''': Archaeology. (''[[OffhandBackhand shoots alien behind her]]'') Love a tomb.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Day of the Moon"

->'''Scratch:''' What "meteor strike"?\\
'''Computer:''' Alert! Meteor storm imminent!\\
'''River:''' ''That'' meteor strike.\\
'''Concierge:''' How could you know?!\\
'''River:''' I'm an archaeologist from the future. ''I dug you up''.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Husbands of River Song"

->'''Wrex:''' With all this exploration of Prothean culture, this must be like a survey for you, Liara.\\
'''Liara:''' Our travels now are somewhat different from my normal excavations. I would prefer lengthier studies, and fewer explosions.\\
'''Wrex:''' It's good for you. A nice explosion now and then keeps the mind sharp.
-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''

->TOMB, n. \\
The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
-->-- ''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary''

->Some things you can't study in books and expect to even begin to understand. The oral traditions of star-forms over Uluru. Latin graffiti bombed on Trastevere stone. Tree-ring calendars from Tunguska, beehive databases writ in wax, chamber music played in reverse to create arcane tone poems... there is much in history you need to confront and tackle head-on, preferably wearing some kind of protection.
-->--'''Iain Tibet Gladstone,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->Equipped with a map, a whip, and a silver tongue, this treasure seeker hunts gold by day and ladies by night. He's never found an artifact that didn't belong in a museum or a bad guy he couldn't outsmart.
-->--'''"Indiana James" description''', ''VideoGame/AtlantisUnderwaterTycoon''

->'''Olivia:''' Ooh, this is exciting, getting to work with an actual professor!\\
'''Prof. Toad:''' Yes, yes, well... don't get too excited. Much of out time is merely spent uncovering incredible ancient relics and being chased by adversaries.
-->--''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing''

->''I love to wonder\\
What's undiscovered\\
It's one big world out there\\
So much to plunder\\
We're climbing castles and\\
Going down under\\
I got here first\\
So you can go find another!''
-->--'''[[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] vs. [[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Nathan Drake]] Rap Battle''', ''Music/JTMusic''

->'''Lewis:''' Wait, he's an archaeologist. Where's his trove of guns and explosives?\\
'''Nelson:''' He might not have done as much field work as we have.
-->-- ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity''

->'''Yu:''' Yoshino Somei, infamous tomb robber and pain-in-the-ass. Sixteen relics totally destroyed, twenty-nine relics rendered unusable, forty-five relics escalated to international incidents ''and'' declared untouchable indefinitely. She's worse than an entire army of incompetent soldiers.\\
'''Yoshino:''' Hey! You don't have to make it sound ''that'' horrible!\\
'''Yu:''' We should just throw her into the ocean now. Don't worry, there's no way she would die.
-->-- ''Manga/{{Spriggan}}'', "The Forgotten Kingdom"

-->-- '''Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw''', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''VideoGame/TombRaiderUnderworld''.

-->-- '''Prospector Whelgar''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.

->'''Olivia:''' Ooh, this is exciting, getting to work with an actual professor!
->'''Prof. Toad:''' Yes, yes, well... don't get too excited. Much of out time is merely spent uncovering incredible ancient relics and being chased by adversaries.

->'''Lewis:''' Wait, he's an archaeologist. Where's his trove of guns and explosives?
->'''Nelson:''' He might not have done as much field work as we have.

->'''Yu:''' Yoshino Somei, infamous tomb robber and pain-in-the-ass. Sixteen relics totally destroyed, twenty-nine relics rendered unusable, forty-five relics escalated to international incidents ''and'' declared untouchable indefinitely. She's worse than an entire army of incompetent soldiers.
->'''Yoshino:''' Hey! You don't have to make it sound ''that'' horrible!
->'''Yu:''' We should just throw her into the ocean now. Don't worry, there's no way she would die.

-->-- ''Anime/{{Spriggan}}'', "The Forgotten Kingdom"

->'''Tali:''' With all this exploration of Prothean culture, this must be like a survey for you, Liara.\\

-->--'''[[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] vs. [[VideoGame/Uncharted Nathan Drake]] Rap Battle''', ''Music/JTMusic''

->''"You call '''THIS''' archaeology?!"''
-->--'''Henry Jones Sr.''', helping his son fight Nazis [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade while racing to find the Holy Grail]].

->'''The Doctor:''' Tell me you're not archaeologists?\\
'''River:''' You have a problem with archaeologists?\\
'''The Doctor:''' I'm a time traveller. I ''point and laugh'' at archaeologists.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Silence in the Library"

-> '''Rory''' (To Dr. Song): So... What kind of doctor are you?\\