No offense, SunkenCiv, but Nekhtnebef needs to check back with Vanna White.
"...many would agree that Dr. Hawass is successfully promoting a positive image of Egypt at a time when cultural tension between the Muslim world and the West is running high. At the same time, even friends do not deny that Dr. Hawass unstintingly promotes himself in the process."
"He's a media whore, and as far as I'm concerned, there's nothing wrong with that," said Farouk El-Baz, the Egyptian-American director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, a satellite-imaging expert who has worked with Dr. Hawass for years." - link
This would be the very last decades of the independent Egyptian kingdom, since Alexander the Great conquered Egypt before the end of the century.