The detailed expedition records kept by Egyptian workers are now standard practice in archaeology, although they were novel in the early 1900s. The Met and the University of Pennsylvania had their own expeditions to Egypt, along with a string from France, Britain, and Germany. They’re also precious sources of information on Egyptian Arabic from the time, labor relations, the origins of objects already established in museums, and even old handwriting. He now has a small fleet of Ph.D. students under his wing, and is overseeing new classes in Egyptian hieroglyphics and GIS, plus a General Education course in archaeology. “It’s just nice to see the baton get passed along,” he said, as Harvard adopts “twenty-first-century approaches to [Egyptian] archaeology.”