“… [before the deluge] the men of Atlantis had subjected parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia…” - Plato

“Some say they [the Hebrews] were a people that were very numerous in Egypt, under the reign of Isis; and that the Egyptians got free from that burden, by sending them into the adjacent countries...” - Tacitus