05:24 am - QotD
"Often the evidence for a 'race of invaders' consists of
cultural changes - which, in prehistoric societies, means
primarily new kinds of pots. I have a prejudice against this sort
of argument. I get idiotic mental images of invading armies
brandishing pots, which they thrust threateningly into the
trembling hands of the conquered indigenes." -- Egyptologist
Barbara Mertz (b. 1927-09-29), Temples,
Tombs and Hieroglyphs, 1964 [thanks to
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katrinb
for quoting
this earlier]