AH Challenge: Egyptian Culture Surviving

The ancient Egyptian culture and language are pretty much dead. The coptic language is nearly extinct - the official language of Egypt is Arabic, due to years of control by the Ottomans and whatnot.

How, perhaps, could the Egyptian culture survive to modern day, or atleast be a little bit above extinction? I just think it's sad when an ethnic group survives but their culture does not. The people in Egypt are ethnically Egyptian, different from Arabs, but they are associated with them do to the adoption of Arabic, Islam, and so on.

Also, how might a surviving Egyptian culture evolve? Would they go through some sort of change in their religion, etc?

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How, perhaps, could the Egyptian culture survive to modern day, or atleast be a little bit above extinction?

That depends on exactly what you define as "Egyptian culture".

The cultures of the Christian Copts and the polytheistic Egyptians of classic and ancient times were both native Egyptian cultures, but they were very different from one another.

It's fairly easy to get the Copts to survive as a major community in Egypt (failed Muslim conquest of Egypt, succesful Coptic rebellion during the Abassid revolution, Makurian conquest of Egypt during the Abassid revolution or during the 940's), but getting the ancient polytheistic Egyptian culture and religion to survive will be a lot harder (if you don't want to work with radical PODs like the absence of Christianity, that is).
 
Well I guess what I mean is what we'd define as Egyptian. Basically any survival of ancient Egyptian tradition, myth, superstition, etc. The Coptic Christians seem to be the closest.
 
Actually, Robert has a pretty good TL on the subject of a successful and surviving Ancient Egypt. I highly recommend it. It doesn't delve too much into cultural matters, but it does touch on how Egyptian polytheism survives and influences other religions. It reminds me very much of China, with a great variety of spirituality under the umbrella of a lasting cultural tradition. Also, the Egyptians end up inventing constitutional monarchy!
 
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