I said ‘stop! We must get Mr Carter.’ Someone found Mr Carter and he ran over to us. When he saw the step, he was very excited and he couldn’t speak. We all waited. Then he found his voice. ‘Dig’ he cried. ‘Dig I say!’ so we all dug very quickly and we found five more steps before the sun went down. Then we stopped.
Now we are all very tired, but very excited. At dinner there were many questions in all our heads: ‘what are we going to find next?’ is there a tomb here?’ ‘ Is it going to be open or closed?’
Early tomorrow morning we must dig more. I don’t think I’m going to sleep very much tonight. At last there is something new in the sand. And my friend Karim found it!