The basis for the written and spoken language of the Cherokee Indians of Tennessee is ancient paleo-Hebrew. What is even more interesting is that the ancient Roman Jew, the historian Flavius Josephus, describes in his Books of the History of the Jewish War against the Romans how the Jewish people after being defeated in what is known as The Jewish War (circa 75 AD), fled across the Atlantic Ocean to a land they called Epeiros Occidentalis or "Western Continent".