 The Greeks revered Egypt because it was such an ancient civilization. So we have a tourist, you mentioned him, Herodotus, who around 500 B.C. goes to Egypt and writes down what he sees. And he says Egypt has more wonders than any other nation in the world. And he wants to claim that he's in a sense a descendant of Egypt. He says the Greeks learned how to build in stone from the Egyptians. So before Bonaparte went, all we had were the Greek and Roman accounts