Shards of Ancient Pottery

Archaeology is the art of reconstructing lives that left behind only faint traces, not clear records.
It’s like piecing together broken fragments of pottery.
If the shards are intact, we might get close to the truth of how ancient people lived.
But most of the time, even those pieces are missing.
So archaeology inevitably involves a lot of guesswork—
and it depends on a kind of imagination that’s grounded in reason.
From a single shard, we read the story of the Earth.
We revive lost civilizations and sketch the vast universe.
What makes this possible is imagination—not wild speculation,
but thoughtful, evidence-based insight.
That’s why reading and reflection matter.
Archaeology is, at its heart, a branch of the humanities.