Ancient modern history dates back to ancient Greece? Mhe... when great Greek cholars like Thales, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle arrived in Egypt the great pyramids of Egypt where already ancient.
Perhaps that may be why the Greeks accorded the Egyptians a great respect for their antiquity.
Why the need to discount the Greeks?
The Greeks invented the philosophical, naturalistic way of thinking that is the foundation of modern science. Other great civilizations existed; but outside of a few relatively isolated instances of inspired thinkers, their investigations of the natural world were mostly pragmatic, and they never even thought to be
objective. Insofar as is known to history, only the Greeks developed a trend toward doing what later became
science and moreover, doing it for its own sake. Thus, the modern world does indeed descend from the Greeks.
Without the Greeks, you would not now have the Internet with which to make that post, and there would be no TV and smartphones... Wait, now I hate the Greeks. Damn it, they also invented democracy. Lunatics. The ancient Egyptians, Hindus, and Chinese were much wiser and moreover,
saner!I love history it gets really crazy the more i search.
Most of what you think you know about history is wrong.
Thats not personal. It is just a general observation. Most of what people believe to be history is fake news, either twisted or just made up by somebody with an agenda somewhere along the linethe Bible being only the worst and most notorious example. Indeed, if you want a neat demonstration of just how bad the problem is, peruse the idiot-bait on Wikipedia and follow the verifiable citations to so-called scholars who crank out arrant nonsense supporting or investigating the historicity of completely fictional stories.
They had indeed great respect for their antiquity, they where stunned how they build the pyramids while they had not the capabilities to do the same. It was build in pre-dynastic/mesolithic time period atleast 5,000-10,000 years old. (It could be much older i mean Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is already 12,000 years old)
I never believed ancient Egyptians where the ones who constructed the megalithic sites with a hammer and a chisel (Ironically the word megalith originates from two ancient Greek words: megas meaning great, and litos, meaning stone). A chisel is made from copper and copper is to soft to handle granite/basalt ore even solid bedrock. They carved hundreds of meters into the ground of solid bedrock in the valley of the kings. Drill holes in granite blocks..

Ore how they even lift those supermassive stones of 100 to 1000+ tons blocks? All in middle of the desert... Zahi Hawass is lying just because of national pride and religion. I want to know we all have the right to know it is oure legacy.
You see megalithic sites all over the world from South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. I say a much more advanced civilizations that we have seen before while the rest are practically cavemen but they are gone fore some reasons. The awnser might holding in written Sumerian texts. That is when it gets really crazy, same with texts from South America and India. You need to have an open mind for that kind of material: the creation of modern humans.