But Jean Tixier had only catalogued and reported a conjecture made in the name of the Hellenistic-era historian Berossus, by the fraudster Annio da Viterbo (1498), who had previously used the same hypothesis to postulate an ancestry for the Gauls.
But Jean Tixier had only catalogued and reported a conjecture made by the Hellenistic-era historian Berossus. The fraudster Annio da Viterbo (c.1432--1502) had previously used Berossus' same hypothesis to postulate an ancestry for the Gauls.