Ancient Egyptians traced their own origins to Nubia

Evidence

Egyptians themselves—who should surely be better qualified than anyone to speak of their origin—recognize without ambiguity that their ancestors came from Nubia and the heart of Africa. The land of the Amam, or land of the ancestors … the whole territory of Kush south of Egypt, was called land of the gods by the Egyptians. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 439

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that ancient Egypt’s own self-understanding identified Kush/Nubia as the ancestral homeland.