The following was emailed to me directly on 18 Jan 2004 by a person  only now as "aainfomail" for now.  It is presented here in it's entirety as received.  It adds documentation to other claims of Asian origins to our quest for the origin of our ancestors.  If this line is correct, and it could be the origins of the German lines, then the Nordic / Anglo-Saxon origins must be reexamined.

"ASSHUR" became ASSYRIA (Ant.1:6:4) whose portion was "the land of Asur and Nineva and Sinaor and to the border of India" (Jub.9:3). Indeed, part of Asshur did settle in this area known as "Carmania" (Strabo map 12) or "Germania" (Herodotus 1:125). This name is no accident! The GERMAN language "bears the strongest organic resemblance to the languages spoken in India and Persia" (p.994, vol.l, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography) and there is a resemblance existing between the manners and customs of the ancient GERMANS and those of the Persians (p.993, ibid.). Strabo even said "they are a warlike people" (15:2:14) which agrees with modern GERMAN history, Most Assyrians moved west from the fertile crescent and invaded Hittite territory in Turkey (Diodorus Siculus 2:2:3). They gave their name "Germa" to three towns in western and central Turkey and to three other towns called "Germanicopolis" in N.W., N. and S. Turkey (p.992 & 998, ibid.). Moving north of the Black Sea, they named "Germihera" (p.998, ibid.). Pliny the Elder noticed the Assyrians living north of the Black Sea (Natural History 4:12) in his day. Later they invaded Europe west of the Rhine while allied with "Quadi" (from Agade [Akkadia]) and "Allemanni" from Halman [Aleppo] - Cambridge Anc. Hist., 3:136 or the Helmand River of Afghanistan) among others (Jerome, Letter 123, p.237). This is precisely where GERMANY was located at the time (Ammianus Marcellinus 1:558) giving her name to the "Garumna" River  Garonne today, p.386, Rawlinson) and a "Vienna (Strabo map 4). Later GERMANY was pushed back. "Nineveh" backwards became "Vienna" and "Asshur" became "Prussia" backwards and "Austria" and "Saar" forwards (The Assyrian language, Aramaic, read right to left.) More parallels between German tribes and Assyrian names are as follows: Goths (Guti), Heruli (Haran), Silesians (Cilicia), Vandals (Lake Van), Lugii (Lagash), Teutones (Tuttul), Suabi (Zab Rivers), Marsi (Kingdom of Mari), Eburones (Habur River), Tungri (Tegarama), Cherusci and Caeraesi (Carchemish),

Chauci and Chasuarii (Cossi) (art. "Germany").  

Kirman is a place in Iran

12/18/2005