This is something I've been circling back to for years. The Nubian connection alone should be getting way more mainstream attention than it does - Kerma, Meroe, Napata, these weren't minor footnotes. And when you start mapping the trade routes south and west into sub-Saharan territory it starts looking less like occasional contact and more like sustained cultural exchange that somebody decided wasn't worth including in the textbooks.
Living near Point Pleasant I spend a lot of time thinking about how local histories get buried or ignored when they don't fit teh accepted narrative. Same thing happening here on a massive scale.
What really gets me is the astronomical alignments shared across sites that are supposedly "unconnected." You don't independently arrive at the same precise orientations by coincidence. There was communication happening, knowledge flowing back and forth, and the Egyptians were probably the recipients as much as the originators in some of this.
Anyone here looked into the Dogon connection or the evidence coming out of Great Zimbabwe? Curious what people are finding.