To: SunkenCiv
Didn’t the Phoenicians go to Cornwall for Tin to make Bronze with?
4 posted on
01/30/2008 4:27:29 PM PST by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; colorado tanker
That’s probably true, as that appears to have been the nearest, easiest source of tin, and they were in the western Med and western Africa. But there must have been a tin trade route that antedates the Phoenicians, I think — tin mining in Cornwall is older.
5 posted on
01/31/2008 8:14:40 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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