While western man believes that he got his culture from rome and greece, greek philosphers themselves have written repeatedly that they had drawn on earlier sources...

In 1799 Napolean arrived in egypt to study and explain teh pyramids...after his officers went trifling around egypt they found a rosetta slab which had on it carved a proclamtion in heiro's from 196bc as well as in two other scripts...(this also shows that egypt was a trading place of sorts a busy city, so busy with the influx of foreigners their slabs were also writtenin diffrent scripts)

this dating of this slab, proved to napoleanand the world at teh time that Egyot existed way before teh advent of teh greek civilization...

Egyptian records speak of dynasties that began circa 3100BC, two full millenia before the beginning of teh hellenic civilization...

It would seem to others that our civilization began in egypt...however going back to greek scholars and philosophers, while they describe visist to egypt...they however speak of another place where they got theuir ancient knowledge from...

The pre-hellenic cultures of teh aegean sea...the minoan on teh island of crete and Mycenaean on the greek mainland...reveal evidence that the near eastern, not the egyptians, culture had been adopted....Syria and Anatolia, not egypt werethe avenues through which and earlier civilization became available to the greeks...

There are numerous similarities that stand as proof of this...for example the alphabet of the greeks vs. the hebrew aleph bait...

greek hebrew
alpha aleph
beta bait
gamma gimmel
delta dalet
e(psilon) he
vau vau-waw
zeta zayin
(H)eta Heth
theta teth
iota yode- (these two are what scholars would claim to be comparable to the english i or y, but note are consonants not vowels so therefore are often mistranslated)

kappa khaph
lambda lamed
mu mem
nu nun
samekh xi
o(nicron) ayion
Pi pe
san sade
koppa koph
rho resh
sigma shin
tau tav-taw....

based on these similarities, scholars date semitic culture to before egyptian culture....not only does it put semetic language before egyptian culture, but it shows that the greeks also adopted their culture from a semetic pre-deccesor