Modern scholars find nothing about Prester John or his country in the early material that would make Ethiopia a more suitable identification than any place else, and furthermore, specialists in Ethiopian history have effectively demonstrated that the story was not widely known there until well after European contact.
Os eruditos modernos non achan no material máis antigo nada sobre o Preste ou seu país que o faza máis identificable con Etiopía ca con outro sitio, e amais, os especialistas na historia de Etiopía efectivamente demostraron que a historia non se coñecía moito alí ata o contacto cos europeos.