Ahead of Their Time

I've been learning a lot about Egyptian culture and civilization in History this semester. It's so interesting to me how a group of people could be so ahead of everyone else in the world. I know that one could make that case for America at one point but ancient Egypt was centuries ahead of it's time. These people invented mummification, they built huge pyramids with much less sophisticated tools than the ones that exist today and they purposely recorded everything they did and believed so that we could learn from them. It's almost a little scary. This is still the number one place on my list that I wanna visit.