 During this period of his career, he worked with a wide range of original texts covering most stages of the Egyptian language; from hieroglyphic stelae dating to the Second Intermediate Period to Coptic papyri from the Ptolemaic Period.His research during this time produced two books, "The Ashmolean Ostracon of Sinuhe" (1952) and "Five Ramesseum Papyri" (1956), in addition to a number of journal articles.In 1953, Barns was appointed Senior Lecturer in Papyrology.