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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-01-05  |  1.0 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  49 seconds
Transcription: Archaeologists and Egyptologists An archaeologist is a person who studies the evidence left by people of the past to learn more about their lives and cultures. Archaeologists often dig underground, since most evidence has been covered up by soil. Archaeologists carefully examine the objects they find. Each object is brushed off, photographed, and recorded. Archaeologists keep notes on where each object was found. They have instruments that can help measure how old each object is. An Egyptologist studies how people lived in ancient Egypt. Egyptologists study what ancient Egyptians ate, how they ...