An archaeologist's trowel is straight-edged, not curved like a shovel or garden trowel. All but the top few inches of soil are permanently frozen. His undisturbed tomb was found by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. The process of excavating archaeological material covered by fresh or seawater. Archaeologists lay out a grid over a site to divide it into units, and then they figure out which units will be dug.
Units vary in size.
Archaeologists dig one unit at a time. A pottery vessel, usually rather large, deep, and without handles. Urns were most often used for holding the ashes and bones of the dead and were sometimes buried. The malicious and intentional destruction or defacing of property. Only the Pyramids at Giza survive.