Well bronze medal is better than silver.
When you get gold, score! You win.
Bronze, well at least you got something.
Silver, you just missed out on first place. Loser! Go crawl under a rock and relive the fact that you lost over and over again!!
But yeah, it's a given that Egypt would be the most popular. Rome is just too political for most people. Egypt on the other hand has been glamorised heaps through history. Remember the mummy parties they had before? Hire a dead pharaoh and host a tea party for the unravelling! Or buy a bag of cat mummy fertiliser! And watch out for the killer mummies that rise from the dead when you enter their tombs! They can walk with their arms outstretched and everything.
Again, Rome is full of dribbly old men!