One of the greatest experts on ancient Egypt, and one of the very few who understood and acknowledged the extremely ancient origins of Egyptian civilization (probably going back over 12,000 years, before the last "ice age" ended with a pole shift) - was John Anthony West. You might have seen him in 1993 in a special called "The Mystery of the Sphinx." You may have read his books or articles, in which he suggested that Egypt was started by survivors from a civilization that came before them, emphasizing that