Ron. Wrote:
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> The reference to “Chinese Civilization" is just
> one of the subtleties I wanted to point out. As
> you might know, in Chinese schools today they
> teach that China is the source of what among
> others came to be Ancient Egypt.

I am not familar with what's taught in Chinese schools and universities, so I can't comment. However, I should point out that both American and European history lessons are also subject to errors, bias, and misleading information. I think that true cultural objectivity may be hard to reach in reciting a history.

This didn't seem to indicate a teaching, merely an untutored correlation. I suspect the "aliens did it!" crew will hop all over the "ancient Egypt" comment, but the development of the two scripts (to any scholar's eye) is very different.