4000–3000 BCE: (The True Geographical Heartland of Ancient Egyptian Civilization — The Foundational Developments Lying Not in the Northern Areas of Later Egy…

4000–3000 BCE: (The True Geographical Heartland of Ancient Egyptian Civilization — The Foundational Developments Lying Not in the Northern Areas of Later Egyptian History but in Lands Extending from Several Hundred Kilometers South of the White Nile–Blue Nile Confluence Northward 1,500 Kilometers to El-Badari in Middle Egypt, Physical Anthropological Findings from Major Burial Sites of the Fourth Millennium BCE at El-Badari and Naqada Confirming the African Character of the Founding Populations): The geographical setting of the foundational developments of ancient Egyptian history lay in lands well south of the single, late northern site considered in the genetics article. These lands extended from several hundred kilometers south of the confluence of the White Nile and the Abbai (Blue Nile) Rivers northward to the archaeological sites around El-Badari in Middle Egypt, 1,500 kilometers farther north. It was this vast stretch of lands — and not the northern areas of later Egyptian history — that constituted the foundational cultural regions and the cultural heartland of ancient Egypt. The physical anthropological findings from the major burial sites of those founding locales in the fourth millennium BCE, notably El-Badari as well as Naqada, confirm what the geography already suggests: the people who built Egyptian civilization came from the south and the interior of Africa, not from across the Sinai. The heartland of ancient Egypt was Upper Egypt and Nubia — the very regions that the Eurocentric tradition has treated as peripheral to the civilization they actually created. Everything the Western academy has placed at the center of the Egyptian story — the Delta, the coastal connections with the Levant, the Hellenistic overlay — belongs to the later chapters. The founding chapter was written in the south, by African peoples, drawing on African cultural traditions, and no amount of selective genetics sampling from the wrong place and the wrong time can alter that fact.