Chinese Chronology and Cycles

...colony. He also states that the Ethiopians—whom he identifies with the Libyans of Africa—had built seven cities in Sogdiana An ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia, located in modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. He adds that even today, villages entirely populated by Black men—doubtless descendants of these Africans—can be found in Tibet. He cites the geographer Ritter Carl Ritter (1779–1859), a co-founder of modern geography as evidence of this and associates them with the Chorasmians and Bactrians Ancient Central Asian peoples from regions near the Oxus River.

Therefore, because China is near that region and likely had connections with it during Egyptian rule, it must have been known to the Egyptians if it had truly been an empire at that time, as the Chinese claim. It is evident that there was a very thorough knowledge of Egypt in Eastern Asia, as seen in descriptions of that country in Sanskrit literature.

Lieutenant F. Wilford, in Volume II of the supplement to Sir William Jones's works (London, 1801), has shown this clearly. Additionally, Baldwin John Denison Baldwin, author of Prehistoric Nations (1869), in Prehistoric Nations (page 53), writes about the ancient Sanskrit geographical system found in the Puranas A vast genre of Indian literature containing mythology, history, and cosmology and other ancient books. He says that Africa was known as Cusha-dwipa In Hindu cosmology, one of the seven "island-continents" (dvipas) that make up the world.

Therefore, if Egypt was well known in India—and if the "India" of the Sanskrit books referred to Jambu-dwipa The central continent of the terrestrial world in Hindu/Buddhist cosmology, often identified with Central Asia (the center of the world and the ancient home of the whole Aryan race, located far to the east and north of modern Hindustan, and comprising the old Iranian Empire with its capital at Balkh)—it can be inferred that the Egyptians also knew the East of Asia, just as they were known by it. Baldwin, in the previously cited work (page 64), states that Auga-dwipa was the country of the Manchu or Mongol people, and Yama-dwipa...