Indeed! It looks as if the photographer is standing on the beach, and the excavators are "cleaning up" a portion of the eroding shoreline.
What's amazing about that (despite the clickbait title) is that the site has been known since at least 1930 -- and the site-rapers haven't eradicated it, looking for salable "stuff"!
I'd guess that most of the "goodies" pictured were from Petrie's excavations...
Thanks!
> the site has been known since at least 1930 — and the site-rapers haven’t eradicated it
Yeah, it’s almost as if neither they nor their ancestors were living there in 1930. :’)