Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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production of literary records." Iron was known to the Middle Minoan period in Greece Circa 1700 B. C. Iron is represented by a ring from a Middle Minoan tomb in the Mavro Speleo cemetery, but was not used industrially before 1200 B. C. The Greekaryans were the first to invent the industrial manufacturing processes of iron. About 1200 B.C., these peoples of the Sea, armed with the new and powerful weapons of the Iron Age, pour into the Near East from Greece and the Ægean Islands. Iron-working spread all over Western Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern and central Europe by 1200 B. C. The manufacture of iron was very early succeeded by phonetic writing. Phoenicians had the alphabet first and the Greeks learnt the art of writing from them. The original alphabet was made circa 1000 B. C.? Morgans' assigning of 5000 years, more or less to the period of civilization, appears to be arbitrary and unfounded ; only conjectural.
Morgan further maintains that among widely separated tribes of mankind, horn have been made the emblem of office
and authority, suggested probably, as Taylor Elective Republics.
intimates, by the commanding appearance
of the males among ruminant animals bearing horns. May be, bull was the best horn-bearing animal. He was the symbol (Lānchhan) of Vrşabha, the first spiritual personage known to mankind, whose creed of spiritualism was widely accepted by a large majority of the then mankind. We get a peculiarly startling corroboration of this hypothesis from a bronze statue of 'Reshef' belonging to the 12th century B. C. discovered at Alasia near Enkoni in Cyprus. The statue has two significant horns. This Reshef of Western Asia has been identified with Rşabha of Bhārata who was the common inherited god of the Phoenicians, Amrorites and the Arameans. He was a deified