[fiduciary]

In service of relevance: some claim that Akhenaten was the first rationalist, or even the first scientist. (IIRC from my half forgotten libart coursework)

I couldn't find any citations from a 5 min goog search on the latter claim, but here's an even more recent article (2018) that talks about Akhenaten anticipating the Athenian philosophers.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/128/Does_Western_Philosophy...

[ncmncm]

The best story we have on the invention of science as practiced comes from Al-Haytham's "Optics", of a thousand years ago, written while he was under house arrest and cut off from access to reference materials. It did originate in Egypt.

[fiduciary]

"Heliopolis" is almost not a stretch.