“There are a people, now forgotten, who discovered while others were yet barbarians, the elements of the arts and sciences. A race of men, now ejected from society for their sable skin and frizzled hair, founded on the study of the laws of nature, those civil and religious systems which still govern the universe.” (Count Constantine de Volney, a French historian, in his book, The Ruins of Empires, describing his journeys in Egypt in 1883-85) In the eighth century B.C.E., Homer, in The Illiad, referred to Zeus and all of the Greek gods as traveling to Africa to “feast with Ethiop’s faultless men.” “Almost all the names of the gods came into Greece from Egypt. The Egyptians were the first to introduce solemn assemblies, processions, and litanies to the gods, all of which the Greeks were taught to use.”
(Herodotus, the noted historian, in the twelfth century)