ETHIOPIAN AND WOMEN PHARAOHS

"Diodorus Siculus is another useful early source . He reckoned that Egyptian history spanned more than 4,700 years counting back from the Persian conquest of 525 BC. This results in a First Dynasty date of earlier than 5225 BC. Moreover, he stated that 470 kings ruled, of which four were Ethiopians and five were queens. There were indeed five Queen Pharaohs in Egyptian history. They were Mer-Neith of the First Dynasty. Nitocris of the Sixth Dynasty, Sebekneferua of the Twelfth Dynasty, Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty and Tawosret of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Concerning the four Ethiopian kings, evidently Diodorus only considered the Twenty Fifth Dynasty to have been Ethiopian. These kings are Piye, Shabaqo, Shebitqo and Taharqo.... "Contemporary Egyptology uses the thirty-dynasty model that Manetho pioneered. Many writers, however, hold great reservations of using the Manetho-Africanus chronology unmodified. The notion that Egyptian history began 5,000 years before that of the Greeks, for example, proved difficult to swallow. The fact that Greek scholarship corroborates it was neither here nor there. Scholars influenced by the 'Holy Bible' also had problems accepting it. In the early nineteenth century, Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson, a British Egyptologist proposed a First Dynasty date of 2320 BC!" P. 229-230, "Egyptian Chronology," WHEN WE RULED by Robin Walker (2006)