[blam]

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[PatrickF4]

I'm not sure why I should care.

[SunkenCiv]

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.

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Sir Francis Dashwood]

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[lexington minuteman 1775]

Makes sense to me. I bet Egyptians went all kinds of places. They were a very highly structured society, into mathamatics, astronomy, sun and moon movements. I do not know why they would not have sailed further into the Medditeranean than previously thought. I was just reading the post that there was much more to Stonehenge than we had previously thought. I suspect these ancient people were not as dumb as we would like to think sitting in our 21st century pedestal.

[LexBaird]

The authors note that though it has always been assumed that it was the Phoenicians who brought the earliest Egyptian artefacts to Malta, the items found here span a time frame that pre-dates the arrival of the Phoenicians in the eighth century BC.

This assumes that the artifacts were brought to Malta near the time of their creation. Why could they not have been imported centuries later, having been sold off in Egypt by a generation who no longer cared for them? Was there anything else excavated in that strata from a different era, or were all the artifacts of like age?

[BenLurkin]

Couldn’t the traders have been Egyptians?