1 Monty: Dr Smith’s here to steal an artefact best left untouched and smuggle it out of the country. She’s not going to tell everyone about it.
2 Monty: She’ll be working in the shadows, unseen, unnnoticed by anyone!
3 Prof. Jones: I say, sir, have you seen a female archaeologist poking around Abydos?
3 Egyptian: No.
4 Prof. Jones: {to Monty} I suppose you think that proves your point?

This is probably different to the modus operandi of most archaeologists of the era, who would be there to steal artefacts, smuggles them out of the country, and tell everyone about it so they could hire cheap labour.