EGYPT WAS THE COUNTRY OF HINDU VEDIC FOLLOWERS ... and they worshipped DEVI DURGA .....ALSO !!!

Skandha Purana, Egypt (Africa) was known as the Sancha-via continent mentioned in Sir Williams Jones' dissertation on Egypt. At Alexandria, in Egypt, Indian scholars were a common sight: they are mentioned by Dio Chrysostom (c. 100 A.D.) and Clement (c. 200 A.D.) Indirect contact between ancient India and Egypt through Mesopotamia is generally admitted, but evidence of a direct relationship between the two is fragmentary. Peter Von Bohlen (1796-1840), German Indologist, compared India with ancient Egypt. He thought there was a cultural connection between the two in ancient times. There are elements of Bengal's folk art, language, and rural culture that are associated with their Egyptian counterparts and have not been explained satisfactorily in terms of Aryan, Mongolian, or Dravidian influences. There are similarities between place names in Bengal and Egypt, and recently, an Egyptian scholar, El Mansouri, has pointed out that in both Egypt and India, the worship of cow, sun, snake, and river is common.

t is believed that the Dravidians from India went to Egypt and laid the foundation of its civilization there. The Egyptians themselves had the tradition that they originally came from the South, from a land called Punt, which a historian of the West, Dr. H.R. Hall, thought referred to some part of India.

The Indus Valley civilization is, according to Sir John Marshall, who was in charge of the excavations, the oldest of all civilizations unearthed (c. 4000 B.C.) It is older than the Sumerian, and it is believed by many that the latter was a branch of the former.

Adolf Erman (1854-1937), author of Life in Ancient Egypt and A Handbook of Egyptian Religion, says that the persons who were responsible for a highly developed Egyptian civilization were from Punt, an Asiatic country, a description of which is unveiled by this scholar from the old legends - a distant land washed by the great seas, full of valleys, incense, balsum, precious metals and stones; rich in animals, cheetahs, panthers, dog-headed apes and long-tailed monkeys, winged creatures with strange feathers to fly up to the boughs of beautiful trees, especially the incense tree and the coconut trees.

M A Murray, author of Legends of Ancient Egypt, rightly observes that as a race the Egyptians are more Asiatic than African. He cites the type 'P' depicted by Hatshepsut's artists as his support.

(source: The Aryan Hoax: That Dupes The Indians - By Paramesh Choudhary p. 225).

Klaus K. Klostermaier, in his book A Survey of Hinduism p. 18 says:

"For several centuries, lively commerce developed between the ancient Mediterranean world and India, particularly the ports on the Western coast. The most famous of these ports was Sopara, not far from modern Bombay, which was recently renamed Mumbai. Present-day Cranganore in Kerala, identified with the ancient Muziris, claims to have had trade contacts with Ancient Egypt under Queen Hatsheput, who sent five ships to obtain spices, and with old Israel during King Soloman's reign. Apparently, the communication continued after Greece conquered Egypt and later by Rome.