“The abundance of gold gave the Greeks an opportunity of using their imaginations, according to their custom, saying that in this region of the two Ethiopias was the Table of the Sun, giving it to be understood that the whole land was a plate of gold, and they wished to name it the Table of the Sun”.

Source Reference: The Portugeues Records of South-Eastern Africa, Volume 3 (written in the 1500s, over 500 years ago)

The Greeks called the People from the Southern Ethiopia with lots of gold mines, The People of the Sun… because gold is yellow and shines bright like the sun.

“The old writers divide Ethiopia into Upper and Lower. In Upper Ethiopia is the town and territory of Sofala, on the shore of the sea called Prassoduum. These two Ethiopias were so called from Ethiope, so of Vulcan, who was their king and lord.”

Source Reference: The Portugeues Records of South-Eastern Africa, Volume 3