Adherents of the Torah would prefer to think that nothing worthwhile predates it, I'm sure... ;-) Egypt also predated the Torah. Then there was Atlantis which predated Egypt, and...oh, I'd better stop right there. Heh! Our present history is just a scratch on the face of what has been in the past. A great deal of the old histories were reputedly lost when the great library at Alexandria burned, during a fight between Julius Caesar and the Egyptians under young Ptolemy.

Clinton - If you can't tell genuine passion and interest in a subject from just "trying to sound intelligent", TFB. Some have to try harder than others.