The First Human Civilization- Where It's At

I always think of the Middle East or Fertile Crescent as where human civilizations began...you know-Sumer and Akad. Egypt is about equally old. Jericho is said to have had human occupancy from 9000 B.C. and that's pretty old. Maybe it wasn't actually a civilzation though. I think the actual first human civilization- the one mentioned in the Bible, was washed away by a flood and also by sea level rise when the Wisconsin Ice age started ending about 30,000 years ago. That might have ocurred ten or fifteen thousand years ago-who can say. Perhaps there are relics of the first civilization remaining below the Persian Gulf deeply covered by mud. The Bible says that Noah's descendents went on to join or found civilizations. Perhaps they stopped in Jericho to get a drink of water on a hot day.