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It is a bit strange that Greco-Roman writers constantly associated the Kushites of Meroe with the ancient Egyptians:
Note: The "Ethiopians" in that text are actually the Kushites; the Aksumites co-opted that name in the 4th Century AD.
They say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. For, speaking generally, what is now Egypt, they maintain, was not land but sea when in the beginning the universe was being formed; afterwards, however, as the Nile during the times of its inundation carried down the mud from Ethiopia, land was gradually built up from the deposit. (DIODORUS SICULUS)
Note: The "Ethiopians" in that text are actually the Kushites; the Aksumites co-opted that name in the 4th Century AD.