Ten years' digging in Egypt, 1881-1891 by W. M. Flinders Petrie. Found and studied during his decade in Egypt.
Sometimes he's busy offering critiques of the pyramid builders -- marvelling at the genius of some (specifically in the perfection of their measurements), the laziness of others (the imperfection of their measurements) -- sometimes he's delighting in the technology used to cut and drill stone for the pyramids, sometimes he's growing bored with his most recent discovery and moving on, sometimes he's doing the dirty work of a dig, sometimes he's belittling the Fellah he hires to do the backbreaking labour, but he is always trying to uncover meaning in the antiquities he discovers (at least the ones he is interested in).
Many consider Flinders-Petrie the father of archaeology because he was the first to take seriously the need for systematic methodology at digs, and there is no denying his contribution in this area of archaeology. But the surprisingly positive opinions of Flinders-Petrie must be tempered with his numerous faults.