The Cush Empire - 8,000 BCE (Proto Egypt)The earliest known settlers were miners in the Sinai region, drawn by the region's abundant copper and turquoise deposits.The Cush Empire spanned a vast region known as Ethopia, from India to Egypt (including Sudan, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine and Western Asia), including Arabia, Asia Minor, Syria, Nubia, Armenia, Mesopotamia and an extended region in Africa.
The Ethiopians (Egyptians, Libyans, Cannanites and Phoenicians) were descendants of Ham ("according to the Bible the children of Ham were Negroid"). The Phoenicians in the days of Biblical Jesus called themselves Ethiopians.The Puranas speak of the Cushites going to India before they went to Egypt, revealing Hindu civilization coeval with that of Chaldea and the country of the Nile.Gerald Massey, English writer and author of the book, Egypt the Light of the World wrote, “The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of the Negro.”Pharaonic Kings originated in Nubia (Sudan) 300 years before the first Egyptian dynasty. Between Nubia (Sudan) there was an intimate relationship and some of the great Egyptian Pharoahs who ruled Egypt like Tarquaha came from Nubia.ref