excavation missed, to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i ve got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we re ready to go. ready? woo! this is an interesting route to get down here. so, tell me what you re doing. now we sift most of this sand. ahmed and iman both grew up in petra and have become experts at sorting through the material here. so, you re basically sieving out all the dust and looking for the valuable pieces. yes. can i have a go? i was enjoying tasting the dust, but now. iman shows me the sort of thing they re looking for. like, normal stones, we don t need them. j we don t need to keep them. yeah, that doesn t look very valuable, that one. no. so, this is part of a jar. and it s nabataean. so, that d be the original people who lived here, the nabataeans? yes. so, that d be very, very old? yeah. wow. that s 2,000 years old. 2,000 years old?
and so, this earlier project dumped a lot of that earth. and so, as you ll see, we re trying to re excavate those earlier archaeological dumps. the dumps are huge mounds of compressed earth which will take years to sort through. at the moment, there s a team of local people tackling this mammoth task. we have specialists who come and actually work and train and work with the local community, and not have them just be regular day labourers that sort of help with manual labour, but actually training them in the tangible vocational skills to help them preserve the site in the coming years. and the idea is that the locals then train tourists to help out, too. we re going to have them working on the soil dumps, looking for pottery and coins, and other things the original excavation missed, to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i ve got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we re ready to go. ready? woo!
of compressed earth which will take years to sort through. at the moment, there s a team of local people tackling this mammoth task. we have specialists who come and actually work and train and work with the local community, and not have them just be regular day labourers that sort of help with manual labour but actually training them in the tangible vocational skills to help them preserve the site in the coming years. and the idea is that the locals then train tourists to help out, too. we re going to have them working on the soil dumps, looking for pottery and coins and other things the original excavation missed, to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i ve got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we re ready to go. ready? woo! this is an interesting route to get down here. so, tell me what you re doing. now we sift most of this sand. ahmed and iman both grew
and so, this earlier project dumped a lot of that earth. and so, as you ll see, we re trying to re excavate those earlier archaeological dumps. the dumps are huge mounds of compressed earth which will take years to sort through. at the moment, there s a team of local people tackling this mammoth task. we have specialists who come and actually work and train and work with the local community, and not have them just be regular day labourers that sort of help with manual labour, but actually training them in the tangible vocational skills to help them preserve the site in the coming years. and the idea is that the locals then train tourists to help out, too. we re going to have them working on the soil dumps, looking for pottery and coins, and other things the original excavation missed, to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i ve got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we re ready to go. ready?
dumped a lot of that earth. and so, as you ll see, we re trying to re excavate those earlier archaeological dumps. the dumps are huge mounds of compressed earth, which will take years to sort through. at the moment, there s a team of local people tackling this mammoth task. we have specialists who come and actually work and train and work with the local community, and not have them just be regular day labourers that sort of help with manual labour, but actually training them in the tangible vocational skills to help them preserve the site in the coming years. and the idea is that the locals then train tourists to help out, too. we re going to have them working on the soil dumps, looking for pottery and coins, and other things the original excavation missed, to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i ve got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we re ready to go. ready?