[Cronos]

Genesis 10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram. Anatolia was once dominated by the ancient Elamites, who are considered the descendants of Noah as per Biblical stories of flood. According to bible, the word Elam derives from “Elam”, son of Sham and the grandson of Noah. The ancient Hebrew text also contains the word Elam and the same word is present in the Tamil dictionary of India and also corresponds with the Sumerian Elam (a), the Akkadian Elamtu, and the Elamite word for themselves “Haltamti”. It can very well be said that the word “Haltamti” when reached India in corrupted form just dropped out first three letters and with the etymology became the word “Tamti” to “Tamil”. Mr. Prabhakaran, Tamil Tiger movement of Sri-Lanka knew his history well when he demanded a separate homeland that he called “Elam.”

[texas booster]

Very interesting!

[Red Badger]

The Branch-Dravidians formerly in Waco, Texas?.....................

[Cold Heart]

Thanks

[chajin]

Maybe 40-50 years ago the prevailing wisdom was, IIRC, that the caste system occurred when the Aryans overtook the Dravidians in the Indus River valley, with the Brahmin and Kshatriya being Aryan and the Vaisha and Shudra being Dravidian. Of course this was long before the age of DNA analysis, and as usual the truth is much more complicated.

[nwrep]

Thanks. The Australoid aboriginals look a lot like South Indians.

[Verginius Rufus]

Chedorlaomer king of Elam is featured in Genesis Ch. 14 (it was after Abram's victory over Chedorlaomer that Melchizedek, king of Salem, blessed Abram).

Elamites are also mentioned in Acts 2.9 as among the speakers of foreign languages who were present in Jerusalem on Pentecost. The Elamite language eventually died out--their ancient homeland is now Arabic-speaking.