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

iz PH@NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

who had preceded and succeeded them.: It thus became obvious that these Indian Epic King-Lists supplied the key to the material required for filling up the many great blanks in the early history of Ancient Mesopotamia in the dark and “ prehistoric period ” there.

Not only did these Epic King-Lists lighten up the dark period of Early Mesopotamian history, but they shed a similar illuminating light upon the dark period of Early Egyptian history and pre-history as well, and disclosed the wholly unsuspected fact that Menes and his “‘ pre-dynastic ” civilizers of Early Egypt were also of this race of Khatti or Hitt-ite ‘“ White Syrians” or Aryans.

The Phcenicians also were now disclosed to be Aryans in race and Khatti Arri or “ Hitt-ite Aryans ” by these new historical keys thus placedinmy hand _s.This, therefore, corroborated the fact found by anthropologists from the examination of Pheenician tombs that the Phenicians were a long-headed vace, like the Aryans, and of a totally different racial type Jrom the Jews,? to whom they have hitherto been affiliated on merely linguistic arguments by Semitists. This eastern or Indian branch of the Aryans, the Khattiyo Ariyo Barats, call themselves in their epic, the Maha Barata, by the joint clan-title of Kuryu-Panch(ala),—a title which turned out to be the original of “ Syrio-Phcenician.” These Kuru and Panch(-ala) are described as the two paramount kindred and confederated clans of the ruling Aryans; and they are repeatedly referred to under this confederate title in the Vedas. Now “ Kur,” I observed, was the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian name for “ Syria’ and Asia Minor of the Hitt-ites or ‘‘ White Syrians’; and it was thus obviously the original of the Swvia of the Greeks, softened into “‘ Syria ” by the Romans.* Whilst ‘‘ Panch(-dla) is defined in the Indian Epics as meaning ‘‘ The able or accomplished Panch,”’ in compliment, it is there explained, to their great ability—

1 See previous note. *R.R.E., 387-380. ; $** Suria ’’ (or ‘‘ Syria ’’) was the name of Cappadocia in the time of Herodotus (i.72 and 76). And the Seleucid dynasty, which inherited

Alexander's eastern empire called their Asia Minor Empire, extending from Ephesus on the 42gean to Antioch on the Levant, “ Suvia ” on their coins. Compare B.H.S., ii, 115f; E. Babelon Les Rois de Syrie.