Transcription: The Egyptian laborers at the work site started their day with a traditional Egyptian work song. Their main job was to haul away the sand as the archaeologists excavated the fourth century Coptic Christian monasteries Once you cross the crest of the hill, you saw that the archeologists had dug into the sand and there were all these sort of canals of walls from the monastery and surrounding buildings. There were also thousands upon thousands of pieces of pottery shards just strewn all over the ground. Jennifer Lee Hevelin Harper was one of the American graduate students helping out on the excava ...
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