Kushites
Kushites of Kishites were an
Afro-Asiatic mountain people of
Mesopotamia from whom came
Nimrod. Their first king was Etanna who reigned immediately after the end of Ice-Age deluges which submerged many costal communities. They left their name in mountainous areas from the
Caucasus to as far as
Afghanistan. According to some scholars they eventually migrated around the
Oman &
Yemen coasts of
Punt to
Ethiopia in the 4th Millennium BC after being displaced by the
Sumerian-speaking
Asshur-Shemites from the east.