Posted on 12/05/2024 10:48:38 AM PST by Red Badger
Could DNA findings answer long-held questions regarding a possible link between ancient Egyptians and the Emerald Isle?
Legends, myths, and intriguing archaeological finds suggest ancient Egyptians once visited Ireland.
Could DNA findings answer long-held questions regarding a possible link between ancient Egyptians and the Emerald Isle? To begin with, there is the legend of Scota, an Egyptian princess who fled from Egypt with a large group of followers, arriving in Ireland in 1700 BC. It is believed Scota, whose descendants are said to have become high kings of Ireland, was killed in battle by the Tuatha De Danann (the tribe of Danu who are said to have established the site of Tara).
n 1955, archaeologist Dr Sean O’Riordan of Trinity College found skeletal remains of a young boy, carbon-dated to around 1350 BC, at the Mound of Hostages at Tara. A necklace found with the skeleton was made of faience beads, matching the design and manufacture of Egyptian beads. The collar matched the collar laid around the neck of Tutankhaum, who lived during the same time as the boy found in Ireland, according to Ancient Origins.
Findings such as these have led to much speculation, but DNA research could be getting closer to proving once and for all that people from the Middle East, and possibly ancient Egyptians, were once in Ireland.
In 2015, researchers from Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast found evidence of massive migration from the Middle East to Ireland after sequencing the genomes of ancient Irish humans, The Irish Times reports.
The genome of an early woman farmer who lived near Belfast 5,200 years ago showed that her majority ancestry originated in the Middle East. The woman had black hair and dark eyes, and she would have looked more like someone from southern Europe than an Irish woman.
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By contrast, the genomes of three men who lived during the Bronze Age 4,000 years ago showed one-third of their ancestry came from the Pontic steppe on the shores of the Black Sea. These men had the most common Irish Y chromosome type, had blue eyes, and had the genetic mutation for hemochromatosis, now so common in Irish people, it’s often called a Celtic disease. Although there were only 1,000 years between them, the genomes of the woman and the three men looked remarkably different, suggesting a major migration must have occurred.
“There was a great wave of genome change that swept into Europe, from above the Black Sea into Bronze Age Europe, and we now know it washed all the way to the shores of its most westerly island,” said Trinity professor of population genetics Dan Bradley, who led the study published in the international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
The research indicates that before the migration, Ireland’s earliest people, who may have arrived as far away as the Middle East, were quite different than the Celtic people that are associated with the region today.
PinGGG!............
I don’t know about Egyptians VISITING the British isles. But a fairly recent discovery confirmed a suspicion we’ve had for years that tin from Britannia was used in the Middle East for bronze.
I can see that. It’s all coastline travel, up and down.
No, but the empty whiskey bottles might be a clue.
Including that transported by a certain trader named Joseph, and his Son.
"And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green..."
’ve studied things Egyptic,
Those writings weird and cryptic,
Upon the tombs that dot Sahara’s sands.
I’ve solved each strange inscription
Left by each wise Egyptian
And hold the mystic secret in my hands.
The Irish were Egyptians long ago
Just read between the lines and you will know.
CHORUS:
It must have been the Irish who built the Pyramids
For no one else could carry up the bricks.
It must have been a Doyle
Who dug the river Nile
For no one but an Irishman would fight a crocodile.
I think these Micks were Turks, Mohammedans and Ghurks
They speak of “Irish Turkey” till today.
Cleopatra was a colleen who came from Connmara
She lost her nationality while roaming in Sahara
So all the Hooligans and all the Dooligans
Must have been Egyptians long ago.
Chorus
Now every Houlihan once drove a caravan.
I’ll say the same for every Mac and O.
And when Moses went to Egypt and saw those Irish faces,
He took the name O’Callahan and changed it to O’Asis
So all the Hooligans and all the Dooligans
Must have been Egyptians long ago.
I love this but the latest “discovery” reported in the article is from 2015 :(
Walk Like an Irishman.
The fact that you might bring something back that nobody else as would be a driving force to see what is beyond the most obvious borders.
One word, Benjy: Tin!
some say they are a lost tribe of Israel
Ever read “The United States and Great Britain in Prophecy”?
According to that book, written by a religious leader, The Prophet Jeremiah took the remnant of the royal line of David, the daughters of the King of Judah, Zedekiah (also known as Mattaniah), who was executed with all his sons, by the Babylonians, to Egypt and then to what is now called Ireland...........
There was a large Celtic population in the Iberian Peninsula during the late Bronze era and early Iron era (The Emerald Isle is located directly north of the Iberian Peninsula by sea.) During that same time period the Phoenicians and other eastern Mediterranean civilizations explored and settled the Iberian Peninsula. I would be shocked if the Irish do not have Egyptian DNA — Not because the Egyptians settled in or even explored Ireland, but because the Celts and Egyptians cohabitated the Iberian Peninsula.
That’s Galicia? I Northwest Spain?
After knife attack leaves 3 children injured, violent clashes break out in Dublin
Notice how the headline's breathless news is about the "violent clashes" and not the outrageous stabbing of schoolchildren by an immigrant? The Irish government followed up with a crack-down against the Irish for any and all demonstrating in response to the stabbings.
Correct.
It’s the other way around...
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