According to Lenormant ("Ancient History of the East,” vol. i., p. 62; vol. ii., p. 23), the early contests between the Aryans and the Turanians are represented in the Iranian traditions as “contests between hostile brothers . . . the Ugro-Finnish races must, according to all appearances, be looked upon as a branch, earlier detached than the others from the Japhetic stem.”

If it be true that the first branch originating from Atlantis was the Turanian, which includes the Chinese and Japanese, then we have derived from Atlantis all the building and metalworking races of men who have proved themselves capable of civilization; and we may, therefore, divide mankind into two great classes:  those capable of civilization, derived from Atlantis, and those essentially and at all times barbarian, who hold no blood relationship with the people of Atlantis.

Humboldt is sure “that some connection existed between ancient Ethiopia and the elevated plain of Central Asia.”  There were invasions which reached from the shores of Arabia into China.  “An Arabian sovereign, Schamar-Iarasch (Abou Karib), is described by Hamza, Nuwayri, and others as a powerful ruler and conqueror, who carried his arms successfully far into Central Asia; he occupied Samarcand and invaded China.  He erected an edifice at Samarcand, bearing an inscription, in Himyarite or Cushite characters, ’In the name of God, Schamar-Iarasch has erected this edifice to the sun, his Lord.” (Baldwin’s “Prehistoric Nations,” p. 110.) These invasions must have been prior to 1518 B.C.

Charles Walcott Brooks read a paper before the California Academy of Sciences, in which he says: 

“According to Chinese annals, Tai-Ko-Fokee, the great stranger king, ruled the kingdom of China.  In pictures he is represented with two small horns, like those associated with the representations of Moses.  He and his successor are said to have introduced into China ‘picture-writing,’ like that in use in Central America at the time of the Spanish conquest.  He taught the motions of the heavenly bodies, and divided time into years and months; he also introduced many other useful arts and sciences.

“Now, there has been found at Copan, in Central America, a figure strikingly like the Chinese symbol of Fokee, with his two horns; and, in like manner, there is a close resemblance between the Central American and the Chinese figures representing earth and heaven.  Either one people learned from the other, or both acquired these forms from a common source.  Many physico-geographical facts favor the hypothesis that they were derived in very remote ages from America, and that from China they passed to Egypt.  Chinese records say that the progenitors of the Chinese race came from across the sea.”