[In response to how Egyption and Chinese written history preceed 6000 years]
It is also a known fact that some countries faked the dates of their writtings because they wanted to be known as the oldest peoples on the earth. Or the first to write, or discover things.
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Except you ignore the fact that most of the research gets done by foreigners who have no such interest.
Excellent inkster, now we are getting somewhere, maybe incorrectly, but it is a start. Now let's apply that same kind of critical thinking and questioning attitude to, say, a religious tome that some people claim to be of about the same age, and use as a science and history book, say the Bible!
Where do these people hide when they aren't online? I know a fair number of people without much education, and none of them make outlandish claims about subjects they know little or nothing about. Of course, the people I know have jobs, or they fish, or trap, or otherwise function in the real world.
They generally weren't aware of the existence of other cultures, if I do so recall, or, if they were, they were convinced of the superiority of their OWN culture, and saw no reason to make up shit, believing that the other cultures had no such ability to write.
Hey, Ptuptah, you know those crazy Hebrews who work on the building site down in Memphis? Yeah, well they're telling me the world was created like last week, man! I'm going to shit them up good, I'll get Pharoah to fake some documents and have him write 'Written 2,000 years before Adam' on them. That'll be a laugh!
I guess that's why they also used materials that exactly correlated the written dates. And why they were then buried in geological strata that ALSO verified the written dates. So they'd get credit for something many millennia later.
I mean, that's why I do just about everything I do. So in 3000 years people will think I did it first.
It is generally agreed that the presence of the First Peoples of Australia goes back 30,000 years. [Much more, or a trifle less, depending upon whose conclusions you accept.]
Hell's fucking bells, the characters in the earliest Jewish scripture were totally ignorant of the existence of the southern hemisphere. It follows then, that the Australian Aborigines had the same ignorance of the Mediterranean civilizations of 10,000 years ago.
Fail, ikester, fail.
Neither the EgyptiAns nor the Chinese knew about each other, and they did not know about Australians either. What they saw was the whole world to them. And "Lucy" was older than either culture. Whether she was people is perhaps a bit dubious.
The earliest culture did not have writing, not any that has survied to our time anyway. And the culture discovering fire has certainly not put that discovery on "paper". What a copyright that would have been!
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