It appears now that Egypt took its civilization from Ethiopia, the black
empire south of it.
The old theories have been smashed into atoms, and it now appears that
the black nations of certain regions of the continent of Africa were not
races in their infancy, but the descendants of a powerful civilization
gradually broken by misfortunes and disastrous wars against it.
The Egyptians have always contended that their forefathers learned their
arts and largely received their laws from the black empire farther
south. Throughout the pages of Homer, the Ethiopians are spoken of with
great respect, as the friends of the gods, the “blameless Ethiopians”
being a common phrase.
The great Greek historian, Herodotus, who has been charged with drawing
upon his imagination in his accounts of Africa, is now demonstrated to
have been truthful. His extraordinary stories about the ancient empire
of Ethiopians, south of Egypt, are being verified from the recently
unearthed monuments, as having been erected by the very people of whom
the historian wrote, to celebrate their victories and honor their gods.
Although the most ancient inscriptions on the monuments along the upper
Nile have not yet been deciphered, the story of the Land of the Blacks
is well known as far back as eight hundred years before Christ.