Quotes
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Dr. Moharram Shoukry : The detective and the archaeologist. Perhaps we are not so different after all.
DS Endeavour Morse : How's that?
Dr. Moharram Shoukry : We both speak for those who cannot. You with your fingerprints and me with my fragments of pottery. We are each of us, I think, keepers of the dead.
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DCI Fred Thursday : So you mind all the bits and pieces down here?
Dr. Moharram Shoukry : If by that you mean do I make sure no harm befalls the priceless artefacts of my people's ancient history, then yes, I mind the bits and pieces.
DCI Fred Thursday : No slight was intended, Doctor.
Dr. Moharram Shoukry : With the British, it never is.
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Dr. Moharram Shoukry : I warn you - all of you! If you persist in this sacrilege, you will answer for it!
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Dr. Moharram Shoukry : [describing the cartouche] Traditionally, it is placed in the body in place of the heart. It bears, also, lines from the Book of the Dead - an appeal to the heart not to speak against the dead. If the heart is found wanting by the rulers of the afterworld, the deceased are barred from passing on to the afterlife.
