From Scythia to Scotland
The Peoples of Scotland Traced Through Scripture, DNA, Language and History

In 1320 the barons of Scotland told the Pope that their people had come "from Greater Scythia," by way of the Mediterranean and a long stay in Spain. Most histories of Scotland start when the Romans marched north around A.D. 80. This study goes back to before then. It starts with Noah's family coming down from Ararat, the scattering at Babel, and the sons of Japheth sent to "the isles of the Gentiles." It then brings in every other line of evidence: what the Greek, Roman and medieval writers said, what has been dug out of the ground, what ancient and modern DNA shows, Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson's Y-chromosome family tree, and what the languages reveal. Archaeological dates are set beside the biblical timeline, and the reasons the two disagree are explained. Every people and language is explained in plain words, from the Picts and Gaels to the Cimmerians and the misleadingly named "Germanic." Maps show the route from there to here. The study also tests the popular claims and shows which do not hold: the British-Israel theory, Pharaoh's daughter Scota, and the forty kings before Fergus. Its finding is that the outline of the old tradition survives but its characters do not. It ends where Scripture ends the story of the nations: in Christ there is neither Scythian nor Scot.