Cipher or unknown language - historical perspective

[Antonio García Jiménez]

Since I am a son of the Iberian Peninsula that has been mentioned by Stolfi, I am going to venture to give a hypothesis as to why the kingdom of the Caucasus was also called Iberia.

The Greeks called the planet Venus Hesperus when it is seen at sunset, hence the name Hesperia which became Iberia, the land that was in the West. The Iberian Peninsula is at the same latitude as the Caucasus, where the planet Venus was visible in the morning. The Greeks must have known at some point that it was the same celestial object and also called that part of the Earth Iberia.