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

gS PHdENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Similarly, stretching across the continent of Europe eastwards, I find traces of the prehistoric presence and presumable routes of migration for the east, of this primitive dark dwarf race of Vans or Fens by the tracks left by their old ethnic title in place, district and ethnic names, which have persisted many millenniums after the primeval sway of these primitive Van hordes had been swept away by countless later waves of new invading tribes of different race and higher culture who dominated these primitive people, but yet retained many of the old Van place-names containing that ethnic title.

An early and presumably the original chief centre of dispersion of the main horde of dwarf Vans in the Stone Age was, I find from a mass of evidence which cannot be detailed here, the shores of the inland sea or great Lake of Van in Armenia, on the west flank of Ararat at an elevation of 5,200 feet above the sea (see map and Fig. 21).

Fic. 21—Van or ‘ Biana,’”’ ancient capital of Matriarch Semiramis and “The Children of AKhaldis” on flanks of Ararat. (After Miss Bishop). (This represents the modern city founded on that of the Hittites and Greco-Romans).

Lake Van, which is about twice as large as the Lake of Geneva, was traditionally the common head-water source of both the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers of Mesopotomia, until separated by a prehistoric volcanic upheaval, and the loca! geological and topographical conformation of those regions

1 Details in my Aryan Origins.