 Additional characters in the series include members of the large Egyptian family who support the Emersons in their digs.The head of the family is Abdullah ibn al-Wahhab, Emerson's "reis" or foreman, who supervises their archaeological digs.Abdullah has several children, among them his youngest son, Selim, who, originally assigned as a bodyguard of sorts for Ramses ("The Mummy Case"), eventually replaces his father as "reis" (dig supervisor).