actors? Scripted?

Very true. This show looked pretty good. What a disappointment.
Well this will be my first and last time watching. I guess if I wanted reality I"d turn to The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

Ok screw it, they're all actors! The supposed "archaeology fellow" guy getting the speech on "do you know how you tell what bone this is" would already know all of this stuff YEARS before taking an internship such as this one, in reality they'd be having someone like him filing the stuff. I suppose it could be playing dumb for the audience benefit but even that aside he's far FAR too clean and sweat-free for someone who is supposedly doing fieldwork. I'm sure the real archaeology interns are safely off-camera all the time until the actors come out of their air-conditioned trailers to film a segment and pretend they are the ones doing all this.

Well that's frustrating. As if people watching this show would not have any idea that this show was fake. I should have known from the trailer when an "intern" would take a piss inside a 4,500 year old pyramid. I don't care how bad I h had to pee, I think one could hold it , instead of relieving herself on thousands of year old history.

If you simply klik on the cast members links you'll see the one girl was in a movie!!!

It's so blatantly staged and scripted it makes Whale Wars look GREAT!

Muhammad Ali: What's my name? What's my name, motherf-cker!

After watching this steaming pile of poo and losing an hour of my life that I will never get back, the only thing I know for sure is that Paris Hilton is way smarter than Zoe. What a disappointment.

The history channel is imitating the reality TV craze that is ruining television. Take TLC. it is supposed to be The Learning Channel. Well, all the do is show reality shows about ignorant weird people. Using shows like "Little People, Big world" where at this point the Roloff family is staging fake emergencies all the time and taking fake vacations to keep it interesting. TLC has an obsession with midgets and big religious families. I can't watch any of their shows anymore. Now the History channel is also getting into the reality tv addiction. They have, for some time now. But they have never attempted to pass crap like this for a true thing.

and about Dr Hawass (notice the fact that his name includes a partial description of the guy-HAW A$$-)For years people have been doing documentaries in Egypt. All of them had to deal with Dr Zahi Hawass. The guy has been trying to break into TV, as the main character, for along time. This guy is famous for being and rude with an huge ego. You saw him tonight exaggerating all of his character flaws. He probably thought that it made him more endearing to the audience. Either way this show is a fail. The guy thinks that only he can take care of all of egypt historical legacy. He is only in charge of it because of politics and family connections. Unfortunately, the real good archeologists have to endure him and work around him.

I have heard his ego was legendary, but I guess he also was following a script.

There is no way those people got into that accident at the step pyramid. All people entering places like that carry radios and/or a flashlight at the very least. I could go step by step but I am quite sure you guys could see through the whole set up. Fake accident, fake emergency drive though Cairo.

Then, at the other site, Oh, wow, he is like Indiana Jones, when he used a rope to go down into a brand new hole but , Hey!, there was a camera guy already there ready to film Dr Indiana from the inside. Oh, and if you look pass the mommy there was another exit at the other side. I guess a secret exit. Like the Bat cave. Then the guy goes all ballistic because people were singing (which by the way, the singing was encouraged by the producer/director. I bet to set up the whole scene of Zahi Hawass getting upset).
Imagine that, 10,000 mommies and they have to hold a moment of silence and reverence, not for the diseased, but for Zahi Hawass, so he can pet his ego explaining some irrelevant fact about the particular thing at hand.

Oh, did you guys noticed how taken he is with the women. He was almost salivating though his eyes loking at the cute girls. Which if you noticed aren't archeology students but actresses. No self respecting student would lend themselves for this charade.

its not fricking scripted you R-tards.

This is really bad, scripted "reality show" BS. It's offensive that the History Channel would come up with something like this...try to pass it off as real life. You could tell from the get-go that it was fake and was built around a plot...then when Zooey came on you could tell she was acting. This show is rubbish...I'd expect it from Syfy or USA but I thought History Channel was better than this. I was wrong.

"I'm a mannequin. That's what I am, I'm a mannequin." -The Twilight Zone

Well to be fair about the looks thing, one of the best parts of the Archaeology grad program was that it had the best looking gals ;) (there were a few that helped pay their way through by doing local modeling).

Uh folks, both actresses have previous credits and if you check the credits above you find a credited writer and story editor. The History Channel barely contains any history anymore but with staged "reality" shows getting their highest ratings expect more of the same. I only wish they would change their name so someone else could use it to show real history. Ancient Aliens, Monsterquest, Pawn Stars, and coming soon Stan Lee's Superhumans, I kid you not.