Kircher's Egyptian world
Kircher's academic enthusiasm went indefinitely back through time.
Our knowledge of Egypt is one of the results. He translated hieroglyphs in detail. They had never been deciphered until then.
He also advanced the studies about idolatory and polytheism by forming ideas about the first religion of human beings from the ancient Egyptian religion.
Kircher's translation of hieroglyphs was later considered to be wrong. But we should pay attention to the research hereafter to know if his translations were really incorrect.