The earliest Egyptian artefacts date to the end of the third millennium BC, 400 years before the arrival of the Phoenicians, and one continues to find artefacts from various Egyptian civilisations until after the eighth century BC. A statue of an Egyptian triad of gods was found in an abandoned archaeological site in 1713 and has been firmly dated to the 18th Egyptian dynasty, dating back to 1550-1292 BC.Ba-haw-haw-haw. :') And, there's nothing Phoenician in the western Mediterranean prior to the 10th c BC.
My chronology puts the XVIII dynasty close enough to the tenth century B.C. that the Phoenicians still could have brought that statue. The XII dynasty artifacts, however, are a different matter. I remember the article saying something about Minoan contact with Malta, too.