A Chinese researcher has been ridiculed after claiming his country "created" the Egyptian civilisation though all evidence points to Egypt being a unified culture around 1000 years earlier.
Though the ancient Chinese rank high among the world's oldest civilisations (2000 BC), the development of a united China came almost 1100 years after the ancient Egyptians (3100 BC).
Mesopotamia (4000 BC), Egypt (3100 BC) and the Indus Valley civilisations (3300 BC) all significantly pre-date ancient China.
