Thanks to the Internet, students can experience the painstaking work and thrill of discovery involved in excavation. In addition to weekly online dig updates, students learn about life on and around the excavation site. Subjects, such as culture and religion and are coupled with online interviews with Egyptian kids or a cave-dwelling Coptic Monk who lives near the site. While the archaeologists struggle to piece together ancient pottery, the students mimic the process they see online by doing a similar project in the classroom. Odyssey in Egypt students keep step with the work on the Egyptian site through classroom projects like making mummy masks, assembling shards and studying Egyptian pottery methods.
Textbooks can get so boring.
A student, silhouetted by the glow of his computer in his own make-shift desert cave, reads email from the monk. A Coptic monk who lives nearby the site in a cave, emails the students, shedding light on the spiritual teachings that were once taught at the 4th Century monastery.