The Mediterranean Aryans are known to have been in Southeastern Europe, along the shores of the Mediterranean, 2000 B.C.  They at that early date possessed the plough; also wheat, rye, barley, gold, silver, and bronze.  Aryan faces are found depicted upon the monuments of Egypt, painted four thousand years before the time of Christ.  “The conflicts between the Kelts (an Aryan race) and the Iberians were far anterior in date to the settlements of the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Noachites on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.” ("American Cyclopaedia,” art.  Basques.) There is reason to believe that these Kelts were originally part of the population and Empire of Atlantis.  We are told (Rees’s “British Encyclopaedia,” art.  Titans) that “Mercury, one of the Atlantean gods, was placed as ruler over the Celtae, and became their great divinity.”  F. Pezron, in his “Antiquity of the Celtae,” makes out that the Celtae were the same as the Titans, the giant race who rebelled in Atlantis, and “that their princes were the same with the giants of Scripture.”  He adds that the word Titan “is perfect Celtic, and comes from tit, the earth, and ten or den, man, and hence the Greeks very properly also called them terriginae, or earth-born.”  And it will be remembered that Plato uses the same phrase when he speaks of the race into which Poseidon intermarried as “the earth-born primeval men of that country.”

The Greeks, who are Aryans, traced their descent from the people who were destroyed by the Flood, as did other races clearly Aryan.

“The nations who are comprehended under the common appellation of Indo-European,” says Max Mueller—­“the Hindoos, the Persians, the Celts, Germans, Romans, Greeks, and Slavs—­do not only share the same words and the same grammar, slightly modified in each country, but they seem to have likewise preserved a mass of popular traditions which had grown up before they left their common home.”

“Bonfey, L. Geiger, and other students of the ancient Indo-European languages, have recently advanced the opinion that the original home of the Indo-European races must be sought in Europe, because their stock of words is rich in the names of plants and animals, and contains names of seasons that are not found in tropical countries or anywhere in Asia.”  ("American Cyclopaedia,” art.  Ethnology.)

By the study of comparative philology, or the seeking out of the words common to the various branches of the Aryan race before they separated, we are able to reconstruct an outline of the civilization of that ancient people.  Max Mueller has given this subject great study, and availing ourselves of his researches we can determine the following facts as to the progenitors of the Aryan stock:  They were a civilized race; they possessed the institution of marriage; they recognized the relationship of father, mother, son, daughter, grandson, brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law,