"Algerian legend claims that the ancestors of the present Maltese, together with the first Algerians, fled from their original homeland of Aram, with some choosing to settle in Malta and others in North Africa, which would suggest that the prototypical Maltese culture had Aramaean origins." The first people to come to Malta where from Sicily... and that is an undisputed archaeological fact. Secondly... it is a -legend- ... furthermore the soruce if from the early 20th century...