The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

PREFACE

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Luxor have excited the admiring interest of a breathless world, and have awakened more vividly than before a sense of the vast antiquity of the so-called “‘ Modern Civilization,” as it existed over three thousand years ago in far-off Ancient Egypt and Syria-Phcenicia. Keener and more personal interest, therefore, should naturally be felt by us in the longlost history and civilization of our own ancestors in Ancient Britain of about that period, as they are now disclosed to have been a branch of the same great ruling race to which belonged, as we shall see, the Sun-worshipping Akhen-aten (the predecessor and father-in-law of Tut-ankh-amen) and the authors of the naturalistic ““New’’ Egyptian art—the Syrio-Pheenicians.

That long-lost origin and early history of our ancestors, the Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons, in the “ Prehistoric ”’ and Pre-Roman periods, back to about 3000 B.c., are now recovered to a great extent in the present work, by means of newly discovered historical evidence. And so far from these ancestral Britons having been mere “ painted savages roaming wild in the woods,” as we are imaginatively told in most of the modern history books, they are now on the contrary disclosed by the newly found historical facts to have been from the very first grounding of their galley keels upon Old Albion's shores, over a millennium and a half of years before the Christian era, a highly civilized and literate race, pioneers of Civilization, and a branch of the famous Pheenicians.

In the course of my researches into the fascinating problem of the Lost Origin of the Avyans, the fair, long-headed North European race, the traditional ancestors of our forbears of the Brito-Scandinavian race who gave to Europe in prehistoric time its Higher Civilization and civilized Languages—