What if there had been almost no surviving records about Ancient Egypt left, the language completley unknown (Champollion does not decode it) , the monouments somehow shattered and eroded , the valley of the king´s plundered and devasted . Im thinking of the Egyptian time like the 400 year dark age in Greece where no records were left. We know nothing about Ramenses II., Osiris and Horus etc.
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, ye mighty and despair !
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands strech far away. Percy Shelly