"It is impossible for any person, even more so for our small community of professional historians and archaeologists, to exist outside the contemporary world. The experience of living through a certain period of history, which we arrogantly used to call "our times", enriches our experience as scholars and enables a better insight into the past, no matter how remote this past was from the present of "our times".

Thus, it is not surprising to note that experiencing the present perpetually influences our interpretation of the past."
-Danijel Dzino