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L. A. Waddell’s captivating volume explores Britain’s origins and presents new historical evidence from ancient Phoenician and Sumerian civilisations.

First published in 1924, this work is an exploration of the early history of Britain’s ancestry. Exploring the Britons, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons in the pre-Roman periods, L. A. Waddell transports his readers back to 3000 BC with new historical evidence. The writer presents his historic interpretation of the Newton Stone inscription, found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in this fascinating analysis of Anglo-Saxon origin.

Despite being a well-known archaeologist, Waddell’s various works on the history of civilisation have caused much controversy and he never gained recognition as a Sumerologist.

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	29 septembre 2016
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THE PH NICIAN ORIGIN OF THE BRITONS, SCOTS ANGLO-SAXONS
WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR .
DISCOVERY OF THE LOST PALIBOTHRA OF THE GREEKS. With Plates and Maps. Bengal Government Press, Calcutta, 1892.
The discovery of the mightiest city of India clearly shows that Indian antiquarian studies are still in their infancy. - Englishman , Mar. 10, 1893.
THE EXCAVATIONS AT PALIBOTHRA. With Plates, Plans and Maps. Government Press, Calcutta, 1903.
This interesting story of the discovery of one of the most important sites in Indian history is told in Col. Waddell s Report. - Times of India , Mar. 5, 1904.
PLACE, RIVER AND MOUNTAIN NAMES IN THE HIMALAYAS. Asiatic Society, Calcutta, 1892.
THE BUDDHISM OF TIBET. W. H. Allen Co., London, 1895.
This is a book which considerably extends the domain of human knowledge. - The Times , Feb, 22, 1895.
REPORT ON MISSION FOR COLLECTING GRECO-SCYTHIC SCULPTURES IN SWAT VALLEY. Beng. Govt. Press, 1895.
AMONG THE HIMALAYAS. Constable, London, 1899. 2nd edition, 1900.
This is one of the most fascinating books we have ever seen. - Daily Chronicle , Jan. 18, 1899.
Adds in pleasant fashion a great deal to our general store of knowledge. Geographical Journal , 432, 1899.
One of the most valuable books that has been written on the Himalayas. Saturday Review , 4 Mar. 1899.
WILD TRIBES OF THE BRAHMAPUTRA VALLEY. With Plates. Special No. of Asiatic Soc. Journal, Calcutta, 1900.
LHASA AND ITS MYSTERIES. London, 1905; 3rd edition, Methuen, 1906.
Rich in information and instinct with literary charm. Every page bears witness to first-hand knowledge of the country . . . the author is master of his subject. - Times Literary Supplement , 31 Jan. 1905.
Contributor to ENCYCLOP DIA BRITANNICA, 1909, and to HASTING S ENCYCLOP DIA OF RELIGION AND ETHICS, 1908-1921.
N.B.-For some Press Notices of present work, see inset at end .
Laurence Waddell
Laurence Austine Waddell was born in Scotland on 29 May 1854, the son of Rev. Thomas Clement Waddell, a Doctor of Divinity at Glasgow University and Jean Chapman, daughter of John Chapman of Banton, Stirlingshire.
Waddell studied a Bachelor s degree in medicine at Glasgow University where he went on to receive a Master s degree in both surgery and chemistry in 1878. After a time as resident surgeon at the university, Waddell joined the British Army and became a medical officer for the Indian Medical Service, working in India, China, Burma, and Tibet. While there, Waddell studied Sanskrit and began a concurrent career as a prominent philologist.
In 1885, he accompanied the British expedition that annexed Upper Burma, defeating Thibaw Min, the last king of the Konbaung dynasty. In 1888, Upon his return, he was appointed Principal Medical Officer - a post he held while at the same time being an officer for the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner. It was at this time that he began to publish essays and articles on medicine and anthropology, such as The Birds of Sikkim (1893) and Some Ancient Indians Charms from the Tibetan (1895).
Throughout the 1890s, Waddell travelled widely in the East, becoming an expert in Tibet and the Tibetan language. These skills made him perfect for the role of cultural consultant on the 1903-1904 British invasion of Tibet led by Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband. In 1899, he published Among the Himalayas , a highly successful book detailing his experiences in the region along with its archaeology and ethnology. He supervised many archaeological excavations in India and the surrounding countries, making notable discoveries that included the exact site of Asoka s classical capital of Pataliputra, and Indo-Scythian Buddhist Sculptures in the Swat Valley.
Still serving in the Indian Medical Service, Waddell took part in the Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901), for which he received the China War Medal in 1900, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1901.
In 1908, Waddell retired and began devoting his time to studying ancient Sumeria. He made valuable contributions to the translation of Sumerian cuneiform tablets and seals, most notably translating the Scheil dynastic tablet. In later life he became interested in using his knowledge of philology to try and prove the Aryan origin of the alphabet.
After a long and distinguished career, Laurence Austine Waddell died in 1928.
PLATE I

Aryan Ph nician inscriptions on Newton Stone of Part-olon, King of the Scots, about 400 B.C ., calling himself Briton, Hittite, and Ph nician.
a Face. b Semi profile. c Profile.
( From author s photographs .)
THE PH NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS SCOTS ANGLO-SAXONS
DISCOVERED BY PH NICIAN 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 Arch ological Survey, Ex-Professor of Tibetan, London University
WITH OVER ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
PREFACE
T HE 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-Ph nicia. Keener and more personal interest, therefore, should naturally be felt by us in the long-lost history and civilization of our own ancestors in Ancient Britain of about that period, as they are now disclosed to have been a branch of the same great ruling race to which belonged, as we shall see, the Sun-worshipping Akhen-aten (the predecessor and father-in-law of Tut-ankh-amen) and the authors of the naturalistic New Egyptian art-the Syrio-Ph nicians.
That long-lost origin and early history of our ancestors, the Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons, in the Prehistoric 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 roaming wild in the woods, as we are imaginatively told in most of the modern history books, they are now on the contrary disclosed by the newly found historical facts to have been from the very first grounding of their galley keels upon Old Albion s shores, over a millennium and a half of years before the Christian era, a highly civilized and literate race, pioneers of Civilization, and a branch of the famous Ph nicians.
In the course of my researches into the fascinating problem of the Lost Origin of the Aryans , the fair, long-headed North European race, the traditional ancestors of our forbears of the Brito-Scandinavian race who gave to Europe in pre-historic time its Higher Civilization and civilized Languages-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 Ph nicians 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 an Aryan 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 Ph nician 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 Ph nician and Sumerian inscriptions in Britain (the first to be recorded in Britain), and by a mass of associated historical evidence from a 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 Ph nician 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 Ph nician, Briton and Scot ; and records his personal name and native town in Cilicia, which is a well-known ancient city-port and famous seat of Sun-worship in Asia Minor.
This British-Ph nician 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 distant from the site where this Ph nician monument 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-Ph nician inscription, whilst inciden