I don’t think civilization began with a sudden flowering of Egyptian civilization ca. 3,000 B. C. I think it’s many, many centuries older, and many of its relics have been obscured by the churning of the earth. I think the Vedas are much older than conventional archeology imagines. Homo sapiens has been on earth for ca. 200,000 years. He wasn’t just bumping around in the forest all that time.
In all honesty, I don’t think so.
I don’t want to use Wikipedia as the ultimate authority, but read this, it’s short:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history
The advent of RECORDED history coincides with Biblical record.
I think it’s an interesting bit of fact there.
Look at Göbekli Tepe in present-day Turkey. It’s older than the pyramids, and a magnificent example of megalithic architecture.