I think you misunderstand my point. You are kind of confirming my point.

What I am saying is that for some reason, this finding somewhere else is not applied consistently. Either we should keep finding the somewhere else for all cultures for as far back as we can, or else stop with this nonsense that just because a culture has some roots from elsewhere, so therefore it cannot have made innovations by itself beyond its supposed origins.

> Either we should keep finding the somewhere else for all cultures for as far back as we can,

I'm not a scientist, but as far as I can tell... do that?

Half the interest in archeological type studies seems to be "ok, this the earliest history we know of, what came before that?"

I agree that humans tend to get way too entitled about (maybe) sharing genes with someone who did something cool in past history, but learning about which populations migrated to egypt and from where and when, seems unrelated.

Of course nationalism and rasism infects science, especially what findings are considered canon in a culture. That only means you might have such findings not that it is the only thing created.