Ancient Egypt
formerly known as (Khem) as I've stated on here and many podcasts was the place to be back in the day, this wasn't a place where one could just roll in unannounced bearing nothing, you had to bring something to the table as it were, that something would have been manuscripts, wisdom and most importantly a thirst for knowledge which is why such great thinkers and priests journeyed to this land of mystique and wonder hoping to bring back the sacred magical and secret teachings of the gods, for the record much of this sacred knowledge was tragically lost in the burning of the library of Alexandria. 
Most notably it was Athenian philosopher, statesman, lawmaker and one of the seven sages, Solon who came back to Greece a lot wiser before leaving and allegedly told the great philosopher Plato about the once thriving civilisation of Atlantis.
Plato would famously recount Atlantis in his works the Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations. With all that said and sticking with the advanced knowledge of Egypt, western teachings tell us that the ancient Egyptians worshipped the scarab beetle because it represented rebirth and resurrection as well as good luck and fortune, yet the true symbolic meaning points to a more advanced understanding of the human skull and the scarab beetles incredible and visual identical similarities.