Ibn Wahshiyya's work in this discipline was influential on later scholars in the same field like Athanasius Kircher and Silvestre de Sacy.
The original manuscript for the founding text of the modern form of this discipline was erroneously claimed to have been lost to a fire during a riot in 2011. Ibn Wahshiyya's work in this discipline was influential on later scholars in the same field like Athanasius Kircher and Silvestre de Sacy. Cheikh Anta Diop was a critic of the early 20th century Dynastic Race theory in this discipline. The writings of Immanuel Velikovsky influenced the Glasgow (*) Chronology, a generally rejected paradigm in this discipline. This discipline's modern form began with Napoleon's invasion of the namesake country and was studied archaeologically by Flinders Petrie and Howard Carter. For 10 points, name this interdisciplinary field that studies the history and culture of an ancient civilization along the Nile.
The original manuscript for the founding text of the modern form of this discipline was erroneously claimed to have been lost to a fire during a riot in 2011.
Egyptology (accept more specific answers that specify that it's ancient Egypt being studied; prompt on things like archaeology, philology, history, etc.)