In the Imperial Ethiopia war was declared from the king of king\u2019s palace with a great drum known as Negariet. \u00a0Ethiopia and Egypt had engaged in wars in their respective past and ancient past histories. According to the Antiquities writer Flavius Josephus\u00a0(37 \u2013 c.100 AD\/CE) that Egypt won once against Ethiopia with an army led by the Patriarch Moses around the Nile in the Lake Tana at the source of the Blue Nile. \u00a0In the later days in the time of the 25th<\/sup> Dynasty the Ethiopian kings <\/strong>Shebitku \u00a0(698-690BC) , <\/a>Taharqa (690-664 -BC ) ruled over Egypt. <\/a><\/p>\n In the past Ethiopian Kings had declared war against Egypt to protect the Copts by using the Nile as deterrence. The Egyptians accepted the Ethiopian demand as the return of the cross of Queen Helen of Byzantines given to the Christian Churches of Jesus found today in St. Mary of Lalibela menaced by the Nile in the past. Ethiopian tradition is full of tells how the kings used to Nile as an arm against the Islamic invention in the past.<\/p>\n In recent times Egypt lost two principal wars against Ethiopia at Gundet 1875 & Gura in 1876 and on the Red Sea shores at the fall of the Ottoman Empire which saved Ethiopia and Sudan from being a part of Egypt once for all.<\/p>\n