Burkitt accompanied Robert Bensly, James Rendel Harris, and sisters Agnes and Margaret Smith on the 1893 expedition to Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt to examine a Syriac palimpsest of the Gospels discovered there the previous year by the sisters.
In 1893, Burkitt joined Robert Bensly, James Rendel Harris, and sisters Agnes and Margaret Smith on an expedition to Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt. The goal was to study a Syriac palimpsest of the Gospels that had been discovered by the sisters at that location the previous year.