The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

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researches to which I have devoted the greater part of my life, and my entire time for the past sixteen years—I ascertained that the Phcenicians were Aryans in race. That is to say, they were of the fair and long-headed civilizing ‘* Northern race, the reality of whose existence was conclusively confirmed and established by Huxley, who proved that

“There was and is anAvyan Race, that is to say, the characteristic modes of speech, termed Aryan, were developed among the Blond Long-heads alone, however much some of them may have

been modified by the importation of Non-Aryan elements.” (‘The Aryan Question’ in Nineteenth Century, 1890. 766.)

Thus the daring Phcenician pioneer mariners who, with splendid courage, in their small winged galleys, first explored the wide seas and confines of the Unknown Ancient World, and of whose great contributions to the civilization of Greece and Rome classic writers speak in glowing terms, were, I found by indisputable inscriptional and other evidence, not Semites as hitherto supposed, but were Aryans in Race, Speech and Script. They were, besides, disclosed to be the lineal blood-ancestors of the Britons and Scots—properly so-called, that is, as opposed to the aboriginal dark Non-Aryan people of Albion, Caledonia and Hibernia, the dusky small-statured Picts and kindred “ Iberian ’’ tribes.

This discovery, of far-reaching effect upon the history of European Civilization, and of Britain in particular, was announced in a summary of some of the results of my researches on Aryan Origins in the“ Asiatic Review ” for 1917 (pp. 197f.). And it is now strikingly confirmed and established by the discovery of hitherto undeciphered Phcenician and Sumerian inscriptions in Britain (the first to be recorded in Britain), and by a mass of associated historical evidence froma great variety of original sources, including hitherto uninterpreted pre-Roman-Briton coins and contemporary inscriptions, most of which is now published for the first time.

In one of these inscriptions, a_ bi-lingual Phoenician inscription in Scotland of about 400 B.c., now deciphered and translated for the first time, its author, in dedicating a votive monument to the Sun-god Bel, calls himself by all three titles ‘‘ Phoenician,’ ‘“ Briton” and “Scot”; and