The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons

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THE
PHCENICIAN ORIGIN OF THE BRITONS,
SCOTS &: ANGLO-SAXONS
WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
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PLATE I
a b c
Aryan Phcenician inscriptions on Newton Stone of "Part-olon, King of the
Scots," about 400 B.C., calling himself" Briton," " Hittite,"
and"Pheenician."
11Face. bSemiprofile. • Profile.
From author's photographs.
THE PHCENICIAN
ORIGIN BRITONS
OF
SCOTS Y ANGLO-SAXONS
DISCOVERED BY PHrENICIAN <5- SUMERIAN
INSCRIPTIONS IN BRITAIN, BY PRE
ROMAN BRITON COINS & A MASS
OF NEW HISTORY
BY
L. A. WADDELL
LL.D., C.B., C.I.E.
Fellow of Royal Anthropological Institute, Linnean &; Folk-Lore
Societies, Hon. Correspondt. Indian ArcharoIogical
Survey, Ex-Professor of Tibetan,
London University
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PREFACE
THE treasures of ancient high art lately unearthed at
Luxor have excited the admiring interest of a breathless
world, and have awakened more vividly than before a sense
of the vast antiquity of the so-called" Modern Civilization,"
as it existed over three thousand years ago in far-off Ancient
Egypt and Syria-Phcenicia. Keener and more personal
interest, therefore, should naturally be felt by usin thelong
lost history and civilization of our own ancestors in Ancient
Britainofabout thatperiod, as theyare nowdisclosedto have
beenabranchofthesame great ruling racetowhichbelonged,
as we shall see, the Sun-worshipping Akhen-aten (the prede
cessorandfather-in-lawofTut-ankh-amen) andtheauthorsof
the naturalistic"New" Egyptianart-theSyrio-Phcenicians.
That long-lost origin and early history of our ancestors,
the Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons, in the Prehistoric"
If
and Pre-Roman periods, back to about 3000 B.C., are now
recovered to a great extent in the present work, by means
of newly discovered historical evidence. And so far from
these ancestral Britons having been mere painted savages
If
roaming wild in the woods," as we are imaginatively told in
mostofthemodern historybooks,theyarenowonthecontrary
disclosed by the newly found historical facts to have been
from the very first grounding of theirgalley keels upon Old
Albion's shores, over a millennium and a half ofyearsbefore
the Christian era, ahighlycivilized andliteraterace, pioneers
of Civilization, and a branch of the famous Phcenicians.
In thecourse ofmy researchesintothefascinatingproblem
ofthe Lost Origin oftheAryans, the fair, long-headed North
European race, the traditional ancestors of our forbears
of the Brito-Scandinavian race who gave to Europe in pre
historictimeitsHigherCivilizationandcivilizedLanguages-
v
vi PREFACE
researchestowhich I have devoted thegreaterpartofmylife,
and my entire time for the past sixteenyears-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 con
firmed and established by Huxley, who proved that
"There wasand is anAryan Race,that isto say,the character
istic modesofspeech,termed Aryan,weredevelopedamongthe
Blond Long-headsalone,howevermuchsomeofthemmayhave
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 thecivilizationofGreece
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,disclosedto bethelineal
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
researchesonAryan Origins in the" AsiaticReview"for1917
(pp. 197f.). And it is now strikingly confirmed and estab
lished by the discovery of hitherto undeciphered Phcenician
and Sumerianinscriptions in Britain (the first to berecorded
in Britain), and by a mass of associated historical evidence
fromagreatvarietyoforiginalsources,includinghithertounin
terpreted pre-Roman-Britoncoinsand contemporaryinscrip
tions, most of which is now published for the first time.
In one of these inscriptions, a bi-lingual Phcenician
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 .. Phcenician," "Briton" and "Scot"; and
PREFACE vii
records his personalname and native town in Cilicia,which is
a well-known ancient city-port and famous seat of " Sun
worship" in Asia Minor.
This British-Phcenician prince from Cilicia is, moreover,
disclosed in his own inscription in Scotland to be the actual
historical original of the traditional " Part-olon, king of the
Scots," who, according to the Ancient British Chronicles of
Geoffrey and Nennius and the legends of the Irish Scots,
came with a fleet of colonists from the Mediterranean and
arrived in Erin, after having cruised round the Orkneys
(not far distantfrom thesite where thisPhcenicianmonument
stands) and colonized and civilized Ireland, about four
centuries before the Roman occupation of Britain. And he
is actually called in this inscription " Part-olon " by a fuller
early form of that name.
This uniquely important British-Phoenician inscription,
whilst incidentally extending back the existence of the
Scots in Scotland for over eight centuries beyond the period
hitherto known for them to our modern historians, and
disclosing their Pheenician origin, at the same time rehabi
litates the genuineness of the traditional indigenous British
Chroniclesaspreserved.byGeoffreyofMonmouthand Nennius.
These chronicles, although formerly accorded universal
credence in Britain and on the Continent up till about a
centuryago,havebeen arbitrarilyjettisonedaside by modern
writers on early British history, obsessed with exaggerated
notions of the Roman influence on Britain, as mere fables.
But the genuineness of these traditionalchronicles, thuscon
clusively established for the period about400B.C., isalsonow
confirmed in a great variety of details for other of these
traditional events in the pre-Roman period of Britain.
This ascertained agreement of the traditional British
Chronicles with leading ascertained facts of pre-Roman
British History wherever it can be tested, presumes a
similarly genuine character also for the leading events in
the earlier tradition. This begins with the arrival of " King
Brutus-the-Trojan " and his" Briton" colonists with their
wives and families in a great fleet from the Mediterranean
aboutII03 B.C., and hisoccupation, colonization and civiliza-
viii PREFACE
tion of Albion, which he then isrecorded to have calledafter
himselfand his Trojan Briton followers" Brit-ain" or"Land
of the Brits," after dispossessing a still earlier colony of
kindred BritonsinAlbion. Allthemoresoisthispre-Roman
British tradition with its complete king-lists and chronicles
probably genuine, as the Ancient Britons, properly so-called,
are now found to have been accustomed to the use of
writing from the earliest period oftheirfirst arrivalin Albion
or Britain. And the cherished old British tradition that
Brutus-the-Trojan and his "Britons" hailed from the
Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor is in agreement with the
fact that King Part-olon " the Briton" actually records his
native land as being also on the Mediterranean coast of Asia
Minor. And thistraditionis nowconfirmed bythe discovery
that many of theprehistoricgravingsand inscriptionson the
rocks and monoliths in Britain are of the Trojan type.
Fully to appreciate the historical significance of these
long-undeciphered Phcenician and Sumerian inscriptions in
Britain,and their associated evidence, it is necessaryto have
some general acquaintance with theresultsofmy researches
into the racial origin and previously unknown early history
and world activitiesofthePheeniciansfor aperiodofovertwo
thousandyearsbeyondthathithertoknown to ourhistorians.
I, therefore,giveintheintroductorychaptera brief summary
of the manner in which I was led to discover that the
Phcenicianswere Aryanin Race, Speech andScript, andwere
of vast antiquity, dating back from the testimony of their
own still existing inscribed monuments to about 3IOO B.C.
My new historial keys to the origin and "prehistoric"
activities of the Phcenicians in early Europe disclose these
virile ancestral pioneers of the Higher Civilization as no mere
deadfiguresin a buriedpast, butinstinctwithlifeandhuman
interests, adventurously exploring and exploiting the com
mercial possibilitiesofthe variousregions along the unknown
seas of the Old World; and indicating to us at the present
day the paths which led to the propagation and progress
of the Higher Civilization over the World.
Starting fromthesolidnewgroundofthe positive, concrete,
historical inscriptions, we are led by the clues thusgained to