In 1938, the Ahnenerbe's president, Walther Wüst, proposed a trip to Iran to study the Behistun Inscription, which had been created by order of the Achaemenid Shah Darius I-who had declared himself to have been of Aryan origin in his inscriptions [REF].
Early travelers to the Canary Islands had described the Guanche natives as having golden-blond hair and white skin, and mummies had been found with blond tresses-facts which Wirth believed indicated that the islands had once been inhabited by Nordics.