Samaalic Era
QurboExit
any source as far as am concerned somalis are connected to a loose group of people known as the cushites who are much older then somalis and predate them
as far as darood and some other figuers trace their ancestry to arab forefathers so i dont know why you included them i wouldnt call them somali
and their is no evidence of somalis existing in 500 bc thats just fiction
The Darod claim of being Arab is fake. They are just like Hawiye,Dir,Isaaq and Rahanwayn and are Samaale.
Somalis have existed long before the common era. Somalis are not new sxb.