Herodotus, Homer and other greek authors known as a Dravidians the Eastern Ethiopians or Eastern Æthiopians. Greek writers for instance identified a Aethiopians of Egypt sustaining a Eastern Aethiopians. Too a Egyptian & Indian geographics were another time equated or even identified: Arrian (vi. we.) mentions that a Indus River was thought by some ancient Greeks to be a source of the Nile.

Herodotus wrote about a Dravidians: It differed around nothing from either a more Ethiopians, save in their language, & a character of their hair. For the Eastern Ethiopians develop straight hair, while it of Libya are more woolly-haired than any more population in the globe. (Herodotus: from either A History of the Persian Wars, Septenary.Lxx., c.430 BCE)

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, however, took higher this connection between Dravidians, Egyptians & Ethiopians sequentially to claim the directly ethnical hyperlink between India & Ancient Egypt. She was attempting to show that Indian culture influenced Ancient Egypt via Ethiopia. She described numerous parallels between Egypt and India in her works. When a discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation Gottfried de Purucker remarked (referring to Secret Ism, vol.Deuce, p.417): The extremely advanced urban civilization of Mohenjo Daro has been discovered on the Indus "between Attock and Sind," exactly a location mentioned in The Secret Doctrine as the abode of the Aethiopians.(Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary: Aethiophians).