Is it true that in ancient Egypt there were people who studied "ancient Egypt"? Was history recognized as a sort of discipline and did scholars study it (let's say in the new kingdom era)?

I've heard in the context of that famous comparison of timelines between pyramids, Cleopatra, and iPhones, that there were people in ancient Egypt concerned with the study of their past which to them would have appeared the study of "ancient Egypt"? IF it is true, then how exactly as far as we know, they did it? Also a general question on history in ancient Egypt - did they recognize it as a discipline/art? Were there scholars studying and practicing, keeping(?) history?