Well, slurs aside, it is hard to deny that the West made all the running on examining egyptian history, culture and artefacts. Until Nasser, the antiquities department were only interested in egyptology as a nationalistic project rather than as an intellectual inquiry.

Which is not to say that the Egyptians should not now have a say in examining and explaining their own history but, whilst they allow that egotistical slug to be a gatekeeper on the egyptian study of egypt, it is likely that the west's dominance of the subject will continue.

keep to the Fen Causeway