Irish Legend of Egyptian Princess Scotia — History or Myth? The history of the human race is very closely related to the movement of humans across the world, since ancient times. Few of these movements across the world by people in the last few centuries are quite well documented and remain recorded in history. However, most of the old mass exodus of people, when history as a subject was not even born, have been lost, as important footprints get lost in sands over time. The topic of our discussion today also falls under the second described situation discussed above, where many people left a nation in one continent & moved to an island in another continent, to form a new nation. This story is about Queen Scotia (also described in many places as Queen Scota or Princess Scota in her young age) who figures prominently in ancient Irish myths and legends of Scotland and was supposedly an Egyptian Princess , who later r...