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Humanity routinely has a similar kind of ego that requires relevance. But fortunately we still have a distributed knowledge system that excises and corrects local folklore.

I don’t think it is interesting that there aren’t Egyptian scholars on the topic, whether this national/cultural identity existed or not.

I obviously don’t care if it bruises an ego, I would care if the lack of representation overlooks something though.



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