Justifying Herodotus?

I recall, reading Herodotus for the first time some years back, that one passage struck me in particular. The historian was talking to an Egyptian priest who claimed that the Hellenic Civilization was far more ancient than most believed, that it had existed for millennia. The priest said (and apparently produced records that backed his words up) that Greece, and not Egypt or any other land, was the age-old source of learning and civilization that watered the rest of the world. The great Athenian statesman Solon, as Plutarch (I think) writes, actually decided to write a history of ancient-ancient Greece after he visited Egypt and had similar conversations and saw similar records, but he died before he had the chance.

[Perhaps I'll find citations when I have the chance. As for Herodotus, it should be somewhere in Book II, where he talks about the Egyptian Empire. As for Plutarch, his biography of Solon isn't that long so you can find the quote without much trouble if you're curious enough.]

Well, I found a rather interesting article that seeks to debunk the theory of the Indo-European migrations and claims that Greek Civilization is much older than we had previously thought. Not only that, but Greece itself has been continuously inhabited by the same people for more longer than we previously had thought. In other words, this is a bit of proof to the story that Herodotus heard in Egypt. I'd love to see more research and debate on this point, but I'm sure I won't since most academics have a vested interest in tearing down the roots of actual Culture and Civilization for the sake of a whacked out political agenda.

Anyway, read the article here. It's quite long but worth a look.