The most common haplogroup among modern-day Egyptian men is E1b1b1 (E-M35), which is part of the larger E haplogroup…

The most common haplogroup among modern-day Egyptian men is E1b1b1 (E-M35), which is part of the larger E haplogroup…

The E-M35 lineage shows its highest frequency (19.2%) in the Ethiopian Oromo…

“The Ethiopians say that the Egyptians are one of their colonies which was brought into Egypt by Osiris. They add that from them, as from their authors and ancestors, the Egyptians get most of their laws. It is from them that the Egyptians have learned to honor kings as gods; sculpture and writing were invented by the Ethiopians. The Ethiopians site evidence that they are more ancient than the Egyptians, but it is useless to report that here" —

Diodorus of Sicily, 1st Century BC

In the 1st century BC, the region known as "Ethiopia" was considered part of “sub-Saharan Africa”

The term "Ethiopia" was used more broadly by ancient Greek and Roman geographers to refer to the lands south of Egypt, encompassing areas in present-day Sudan, South Sudan, and Ethiopia…

The kingdom located in the area we now know as Ethiopia was often referred to as "Abyssinia"

“Egyptian tradition of the Dynastic Period held that the aboriginal home of the Egyptians was Punt”

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(Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, ‘A Short History of the Egyptian People With Chapters on Their Religion, Daily Life, Etc’; 1914)

Hatshepsut’s inscriptions claim that her divine mother Hathor was from Punt…

“The Egyptians sometimes called Puntland ‘Ta-Netjeru’, meaning "Land of the God," and considered it their place of origin”

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(Richard Pankhurst, ‘The Ethiopians’; 1998)

“We came from the beginning of the Nile where God Hapi dwells, at the foothills of The Mountains of the Moon” — Temple of Karnak in Thebes

Where is the beginning of the Nile???

It is generally accepted that the most distant source of the Nile is the Kagera River, which begins in the highlands of Burundi and Rwanda in East Africa…

The Kagera River flows into Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa, which is also considered the source of the Nile by some…

So, depending on how one defines the "beginning" of the Nile, it could be considered either the Kagera River or Lake Victoria…

Lake Victoria is located in East Africa and is bordered by three countries: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda…