> civilization began in the Middle East about 4000 years ago as described in the Bible. When you stretch back to 12,000 years, the events in the Bible change their perspective. There are many issues with the common timeline pushed in Christianity. Largely, this timeline exists because they didn't know many anchor points in history onto which they could attach their timeline. The result is a hyper compressed biblical timeline. This is, for example, why they can say there were no slaves in Egypt. Well, there wasn't at the specific point in time they look because it's at the wrong point in time. Some Christians are taught the great flood was a couple thousand years ago. But the Great Flood is the Younger Dryas Event, which was roughly 11,800 years ago. This means the post-flood history is more than double of what many Christians believe is the entire lifespan of the world. Additionally, there is strong geological evidence that Egypt is roughly 13,000 years old. So on and so on... This is hardly the only ancient structure which aligns with this timetable of roughly 12,000-13,000 years ago. And even in Egypt you find the swastika from this time period. Pretty much every culture which still has calendar records tells us that the Earth has been restarted multiple times. The last time by flood. Pretty consistently, they all point back to roughly 11,000-12,000 years ago for the last reset. As for cro-magnon, something unexplained happened some 30,000-35,000 years ago. For completely unknown reasons cro-magnon started complex art, social structure, agriculture, complex language, and began to use more complex tools. We are descendants of cro-magnon. They had bigger brains than us. This event, IMOHO, is the Adam and Eve event.