Egyptian Archaeology

Photos of exploration of ancient egypt: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/egyptexplorationsociety/collections/72157607602146237/

vhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/egyptexplorationsociety/sets/72157620452161637/

http://www.ees.ac.uk/archive/index.html


More about exploring Egypt specifically: http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/themes/record.html
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/hsm/GizaHomePage.htm


Now, once they dig stuff up, how do they know what it was for? Sometimes they don't:


http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/search/virtual_exhibitions/exhib.php?username=stephen