Digging Up Dirt on Egypt

The Washington Post | December 15, 1989| | Copyright

ARCHAEOLOGY has always been a dirty business, but modern field workers have gone from stooping low to get the dirt on our ancestors to absolutely wallowing in their filth and trash.

In the old days, dirt was just the stuff that covered the ancient tombs and treasures that the buccaneers of early science were seeking. They cleared it away as fast as they could and dumped it anywhere handy; spoil banks from massive 19th-century digs rival the great pyramids in the Valley of the Nile.

Eventually such rapacious tomb-robbing gave way to orderly excavation, in which the soil was removed layer by ...

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