There was a lot of plundering done by Napoleon in those foreign places like Italy, where they took all the fine art out of the cathedral in Milan. They did raids and found and brought back a lot of wonderful artifacts from Egypt, including the needles of Cleopatra that are standing now in Paris. He wouldn’t be Tutankhamun, maybe a less important Pharaoh. The director spoke at length about the scene, specifically the moment involving the corpse in the sarcophagus and the artifacts taken by the French.
In an interview with Deadline ahead of the Napoleon release date on November 22, Scott spoke out in defense of the movie's controversial Egyptian invasion scene.