Classical historians recorded Egypt as an Ethiopian colony

Evidence

Diodorus Siculus (of Sicily), writing in the first century B.C., came to a similar conclusion (a conclusion for the most part only quite recently accepted by Western archaeologists and Egyptologists): … The civilized Ethiopians … according to Diodorus, were the first to honor the gods whose favor their [sic] enjoyed, as evidenced by the fact that they had been free from foreign invasion. These Ethiopians were not only pioneers in religion, Diodorus informs us, but also originators of many customs practiced in Egypt, for the Egyptians were colonists of the Ethiopians. From these Ethiopians the Egyptians derived, for example, beliefs concerning their kings, burial practices, shapes of statues, and forms of letters. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 440

Categorization

• XREF: Diodorus’s account that Egyptians were colonists of Ethiopians parallels the ‘reverse colonization’ idea; connects to the classical sources cited in Herodotus and to later Afrocentric historiography.