See? Until this single person dies - now in total control of the research and the “facts” of whatever will be found from any research, and in total control of access to the foundations and rocks and tombs and quarries where “new facts” may be found - there will never be any chance of different theories or different “facts” being being discovered.
Do I exaggerate? Not really. The men and women he appoints and has indoctrinated in many other departments and universities and labs and museums have been indoctrinated as well - but their ideas are often slightly different, sometimes correctly different. Sometimes incorrect. But never exactly the same. Few important new scientific discoveries are made after the new challenging, interesting, exploratory young scientist has become the old, experienced, entrenched and established scientist.
The same process of group-think and locking out opposing ideas happens in nuclear physics (fusion in particular), in economic theory, in global warming propaganda and research, in biology, etc.
“See? Until this single person dies ...”
Notice I used the past tense - as in ‘was’. He was demoted during the Egyptian Revolution which installed el-Sisi and someone else was put in charge - or maybe a committee. Hawass appointed no one. And as far as I know neither has Lehner. This is no a ‘single person’ problem, but a civilizational problem.
It is not just one person, but the entire community of Egyptologists who stand by the fairy tale of Egyptian history (prior to 30 BC and the Roman conquest), first concocted during the 18th century, polished in the 19th, and sugar coated for the masses in the early 20th.
Hawass is very much alive - only his position was taken away - not for his beliefs or support for the fairy tale, but for his boorish and bullying behavior - he just pissed too many people off, nor did he help his case by speaking against el-Sisi.
Hawass did not invent this modern version of the Ancient Egyptian fairy tale; it came about from various early adventurers - mostly Brits - who saw the world through eyes colored by the times, by colonialism, and by the dream of the British Empire.
It will take more than just the demotion of some lech in Egypt - this whole thing rests on the present civilization view that human progress is linear, progressing slowly until we get to the present age and the highest form of human civilization yet. Just a crock.
That entire paradigm will have to be overturned before any understanding of the true history of the human race can be discovered.