>>1302>>1304The politics of Egyptology is an interesting thing BTW since there has been a nationalist, decolonial movement around that centered around the Egyptian celebrity archaeologist Zahi Hawass. He basically wrested control of the field from Europeans and took authority over archaeological digs.
He also has a reputation for being a grifting, self-promoting egomaniac (I remember seeing his Indiana Jones hat for sale in the gift shop of a traveling exhibition of Akhenaten artifacts). But he is an actual Egyptologist who speaks German (the field used to be dominated by Germans who published a lot of their research in German so you need to know it if you're a serious Ph.D in Egyptology, which he is).
Also his biggest haters nowadays are schizos who believe aliens built the pyramids so I have to critically support him. It's worth noting that Kemetic black nationalists and white supremacists Aryanists both get into schizo pyramid theories. Probably more common among black Kemites now, and more common among white supremacists in the 19th century like Arthur de Gobineau.