I notice you mentioning it later in this post...

as far as I've seen, no one is claiming that Egypt/Kemet was the "first" civilization...it's study is important because of its centrality in the development of African and early world civilization.

i made this post some time ago...maybe the responses would be helpful:

http://www.okayplayer.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=2237&forum=DCForumID1&archive=yes

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