Great comment. I do believe that Ancient Egypt was a colony of Atlantis pre-flood, ie earlier than 12,000 years ago. I know many people think that aliens are involved, and of course I can't dismiss that as a possibility, but I think that all this can be explained without involving aliens. By "advanced" I mean a world-spanning civilization that was possessed a high level of technology but took a different route than our current civilization. It makes sense that one group would become advanced first, and then they spread their knowledge to the rest of the world. And the first seem to have been western europeans, or cro-magnons. There do seem to have been different species of human until recently, with the people with elongated head being royalty until they wen extinct recently. Maybe they were the first advanced civilization, and not us. Neanderthals also existed recently (who appear to have become what we know today as jews).