Oh! That's exciting! When I Was in 4th grade I obsessed over Egyptian designs. So very lovely. I was also going through an archaeology phase back then, but I'm about 50% sure it was Indiana Jones! Though I enjoy history, its mostly the lore and mythology that interest me. Norse and Gaelic are currently holding my favorite studies. Though I daresay regency england is interesting. What drew you to archeology? :3
There are a number of different reasons that I was originally interested in archaeology. The first reason is the same as yours watching the original Indiana Jones movies got me interested a little to start, mostly it put the idea on my radar. The second reason was the massive amount of history channel documentaries I watched as I grew up, before the channel became a joke, got me interested in what archaeologists study and actually do, as opposed to what the movies show about it. The third reason I don’t think I have told anyone let alone thought about it in years, throughout high-school I watched Stargate SG-1 like every day. One of my favorite characters was Daniel Jackson, the archaeologist, and the idea of studying ancient cultures just stuck in my head, not the idea of fighting aliens, no the day job the character had before hand, I don’t know if I got what I was supposed to out of it, but it lead me to what I now study. I don’t know which of these was the key factor that made me make the decision, but if I did not study archaeology I most likely would have been a history major instead.
