Thank you both. Had this saved on my phone and never figured out where it came from (probably discord). I didn’t know it was cropped.

Edit: Cool! Lemmy lets you change the image when you edit the post! Fixed!

Actual Egyptian. Can confirm.

That is absolutely correct. It allows you to take a lot of the exposition the narrator normally has to do in order to explain things to the reader and integrate it in dialogue/narrative itself, and the protagonist doesn’t have to be a child/amnesiac/etc to ask obvious questions.