The boundary between the two states-the known and the unknown-is still substantial, but it is wearing thin in places; and like excavators engaged in boring a tunnel from opposite ends, amid the roar of water and other noises, we are beginning to hear now and again the strokes of the pickaxes of our comrades on the other side.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
There is better evidence for the so early existence of Miletus, where the German excavators have found much pottery of the latest Aegean age, than of any other.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
With those two exceptions, Miletus and Ephesus, the sites of the elder Hellenic cities on or near the Anatolian coast still await excavators who will go to the bottom of all things and dig systematically over a large area; while some sites await any excavation whatsoever, except such as is practised by plundering peasants.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth