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You may have seen this about the recent hire at Harvard University:
This may not mean much to you, but to an amateur archaeologist such as myself, this news is somewhat shocking: Harvard University is only now getting the first Egyptology professor it has employed since the last person holding the job died -- 68 years ago.
What does this mean? I mean, does this signify something new, a fresh interest in Egyptology? One would think that the King Tut mania that crept over the nation in the mid-1970s, in which people waited in line nearly 8 hours to enter the Tutankhamun exhibition, would have been cause for Harvard to dust off its Egyptology offerings. But it's only happening now. Why?
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