Why do people in Egypt now believe in Allah instead of their Egyptian Gods?
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The ancient Egyptian pantheon pretty much died out a long time ago. It started to get replaced by Greek gods after Ptolemaic dynasty (named after one of Alexander the Great’s generals) controlled it, and later by Roman gods.
After Christianity was legalized in the Roman Empire, Christianity actually became one of the primary religions in the country. However, from 639 and 642 AD, it was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate which was a Muslim empire. There were some periods of relative religious tolerance, but other periods of extreme persecution towards Egyptian Christians and Jews. Eventually, Islam was the dominant religion there.
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