According to Herodotus ( the Ancient Greek historian) upon his visit to ancient Egypt he noticed, top administrators, judges, police, and all top government was in the hands of the Ethiopians, the common language was the demotic language used by many there and what the pharaohs speak was the hermetic language which is the common language of the Ethiopians, therefore he said, Egypt was the colony...by Eph_Axum in: Egypt Travel Forum