I’m going to stay out of this conversation/debate, but I do find it immensely fascinating as someone who has published a book on Assyrian artifacts sold and imported into US schools, such as Harvard and Yale, for religious purposes (and 19th-century “Assyromania”)…
Real Egyptology? The Public Doesn’t Want to Hear It | Egyptian Streets:
No other field that I know of, other than Egyptology, can gather so many pseudo-historians and alleged experts. A long-life reader or avid enthusiast can pass as an expert, amassing millions of subscribers on YouTube or enjoying airtime on television. We would never treat any other profession the same way.
My friends and acquaintances take pleasure in sending me YouTube videos of ‘pyramids generating electricity’ or ‘evidence of long civilizations’.
Every other video I received has to have the word ‘secret’ or ‘mystery’ slapped on it as if Egyptologists and archeologists are steadfast gatekeepers of what is actually widely disseminated knowledge.