Note: this topic is from 01/13/2007. A re-ping. Thanks blam.
Posted on 01/13/2007 3:08:47 PM PST by blam
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The argument sounds persuasive. I say this from a position of not knowing very much.
I'm not sure why I should care.
How rude. If you don't care fine. Don't click in to the post. Blam does a service here a lot of long time Freepers appreciate. He posts great articles.
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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Yup. Our knowledge base has risen to great heights numerous times. I think catastrophies have knocked them back many times. We're probably due for a good knock now.
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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.
Yeah. :')
Why did the author describe the german as "East German?"
Odd.
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?
"I'm not sure why I should care."
It speaks to how mobile the ancients were, which in turn affects politically correct theories now in vogue. e.g. palestine and Indian gaming.
Note: this topic is from 01/13/2007. A re-ping. Thanks blam.
In the shadow of the Moon
New Scientist | 30 January 1999 | editors
Posted on 08/31/2004 8:42:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1203912/posts
Couldn’t the traders have been Egyptians?
Note: this topic is from 01/13/2007. Thanks blam.And, it's one of *those* topics:
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... 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... Four funerary Egyptian stone slabs, known as Egyptian steles, were found in 1829 beneath the foundations of a mid-17th century villa on a promontory in Grand Harbour... dated from the 12th dynasty... Dr Murray also carried out excavations at various sites in Malta, and in her report of 1928, she identified several other Egyptian artefacts that were found in rock tombs in various localities. The most significant find was a ring with a scarab bearing the name of Sebek-hetel, dating to the 13th Dynasty...
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