Example of site discovery in Egypt - Includes links showing how sites are found with radar!
What do archaeologists do at a site?
You can also find out how archaeologists at a site in Egypt decided where to begin digging and the kind of work they did at the site, why stratigraphy is important, and how archaeologists record their mountains of data.
If you still think that an archaeologist's life is non-stop excitement, battling bad guys for hidden treasures like Indiana Jones did, take a look at a day in the life of an archaeologist.
Archaeologists and the technicians who work with them at sites also spend a lot of time putting together the pieces of artifacts that have broken, either long ago or during excavation. You can see how they reconstruct wall paintings from an ancient Egyptian monastery, and reconstruct and draw pottery.
What can we learn from artifacts?
What can we learn from pottery?
Experts who help an archaeologist
Saving the past for the future.
Site conservation and reconstruction at a site in Egypt.
If you want to take a tour of some archaeological sites, you can check out the week-by week progress of a dig at an ancient (A.D. 385) Christian Monastery in Egypt, where the excavation methods used and the scenery are fairly similar to what we encounter in Mali.
You can also tour the Crow Creek site in South Dakota, where archaeologists have found evidence of a 14th century massacre of about 500 people!