Yes, true, one of the tragedies was the destruction of the library of Alexandria, and one of the dilemmas is that Greek mathematicians often state they learnt their knowledge from Egypt yet, as you say, we have no logico-mathematical proofs from cultures before the hellenic.
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Right, most of the great resources to justify the contributions of Thales and the following Greeks have been destroyed of lost!