The Afro-Centric movement wants to have a golden age like the Greeks, Romans, Persions, Hebrews, Asyrrians, Babylonians, Britisj, French and Americans. So they steal the Egyptian's.
The black muslims claim that the pyramids were designed and built by black Africans with wings.
What's funny about that is that the ancient sites and treasures of the era were looted by later populations. Some of those papyrus writings and mummies will never be studied, since they were burned for kindling. Even huge monuments were disassembled, stone by stone, to build new structures.
The only reason Pharaonic Egypt is of interest today is because French archaeologists did initial studies there ca 1800.