Yes the BenBen stone as a meteorite sounds a bit far out. But then again considering their view of the sky and sun and stars etc - it would really have been seen as something significant if they did see a firey object fly 'out of the sky' and when they went to where it had landed they found something metal with a specific 'unnatural' shape.

And I'm sure the article would be different if it was written by Wilkinson himself - it was just for general info to show that the theory they had in docudrama was based on something. I'm not really sure what you mean by ethnocentric in that way though. From what I understand this whole idea of kings/queens/demi-god becoming or being stars was fairly common right around the ancient world. Have you read Chapmans "Gods in the Sky" -> [www.amazon.co.uk] ?

Its in the bible as well such as;

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12 How you have fallen from heaven,
O morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!

[www.biblegateway.com];

What is the opposite of "fallen" ? Could it not be "launched" ?

I don't think they did that bad a job of getting the main ideas across - for a docudrama that was really about Champollion I don't think it was taking too much license