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Fair enough. Part of this goes to how the CCP have tried to hold themselves up at the 'oldest, most senior' civilization to their citizens and in propaganda. The Chinese have some legit things to claim like gunpowder and silk, but they aren't the eldest kid on the block or the one that...

I think that the city we think of a Jericho is not that old, but the location was used intermittently beforehand because it sits at a good location for agriculture. I expect one of those gaps in habitation they mention in the Nature paper is from the airburst that hit the area. Another...

Tepe is likely one of the first 'temples/observatories'. Watching the stars for changes in season was something many early humans did all over; just look at bloody Stonehenge. As for the stuff in SA, I do not remember names of exact locations, saw it on a documentary age ago, I vaguely recall...

Yes, Gobekli Tepe is older than Egypt or Jericho. Though I doubt Jericho's 15000 years old. It was founded in the Bronze Age after the asteroid hit/low-alt airburst which pulverized Sodom and Gamorrah, or Tall el-Hammam, across the Jordan River Valley from where Jericho is now, and fucked the...

*Egypt laughs heartliy at the youngsters trying to act like either of them is older than the Pharaohs*