 In the seventh century, Isidore of Seville published his noted history, in which he traces the origins of most of the nations of Europe back to Japheth.Scholars in almost every European nation continued to repeat and develop Saint Isidore's assertion of descent from Noah through Japheth into the nineteenth century.Ivane Javakhishvili associated Japheth's sons with certain ancient tribes, called Tubals (Tabals, Greek