If I were 30ish and single, I would head over there and volunteer. What an adventure.
The adventure is taylor made for healthy seniors! My first wife would get a kick out of digging around in Egypt finding detritus.
It’s a great way (I believe) to help out — it’s archaeological tourism, one pays for everything oneself, is worked like a dog, is generally employed in countries which could blow up at any minute, it’s hot and dry, and one can’t take home anything one finds (unless one contracts typhus from excavating an ancient latrine, for example).
I’d like to try it, but I’m not 30ish any longer. :’)