It seeks to heighten interest and increase participation in archaeology among young people in the belief that encouragement of the young will be to the good of the discipline as well as the individuals themselves. Young people between the ages of 9 - 16 are eligable to become members of either, or both, their local branch of YAC, or the National Club. YAC aims to encourage young people to explore and appreciate their local environment and archaeology through a range of enjoyable and creative activities. At the Egypt session, each member had a name badge with their name written in heiroglyphs. If you would like to see what your name looks like written in heiroglyphs visit the web site here .
Archaeology is the study of the past.
Archaeology tries to reconstruct the buildings, possessions, the events and the lifestyles or cultures of people that lived in the past. History records events changes and lifestyles, but these are often written about from the view of an important person and how it affected that person and other important people in society. Archaeology however tells a story about people from all walks of life. Lots of interesting stuff on both history and archaeology here.