Where do you get this stuff?  Some people might deserve "a say" in their cultural heritage, but only if their motives are pure?

Perhaps "the West's head start" can be partly explained by the fact that Egypt was to varying degrees a colony, occupied by British troops, until 1952-53?  It's hard to be an archaeologist with someone standing on your head.

And for the record, Cairo University has been granting graduate degrees in Egyptology since well before Nasser, so it seems that somebody was interested in Egypt's cultural heritage before then.