Short answers, pulled from the story.
John Robert Baines is a retired British Egyptologist born on the 17th of March 1946. He was Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2013 and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011.
Baines was Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2013, a tenure of thirty-seven years. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Arizona in 1982 and 1988. After retiring in 2013 he remained at Oxford as a research associate.
His major publications include the Atlas of Ancient Egypt (1980, with Jaromir Malek), Fecundity Figures: Egyptian Personification and the Iconology of a Genre (1987), Stone Vessels, Pottery and Sealings from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (1994), and Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt (2007). He also translated Erik Hornung's Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt in 1982.
Baines studied Egyptology at the University of Oxford, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1967 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1976. Before Oxford, he attended Winchester College, an all-boys public boarding school in Winchester, Hampshire.
Baines's research focuses on ancient Egyptian art, religion, literature, and biography, as well as modelling ancient Egyptian society and applying comparative and anthropological approaches to ancient civilizations. He has also written extensively on the relationship between visual and written culture in ancient Egypt.
Baines was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011. The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.