Voltaire's Arguments About India and Egypt

Voltaire argued strongly that india, not egypt, should be considered the font of civilization. The things he's arguing about meshes pretty well with the most popular myth in western mythological canon, atlantis. There's not a noaion. But yer's like this perfect golden age civilization with advanced technology that his, like, somehow got destroyed and we're all descended from them. Kinti: I just didn't know it yet.