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
220 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
restricted period of between about 1450 B.c. to 1250 B.c.} But the obvious Phenician origin of these blue beads at Stonehenge and other parts of Britain has not been remarked. The Phoenicians were the great manufacturers of fine necklaces in the ancient world, as recorded by Homer, and specialists in glass and glazes, as attested by the remains of their great glass factories at their port of Cition and elsewhere.
Now, the blue-glazed beads in question first appear in Egypt at the beginning of the Phenician Renaissance in that countyy, usually called “ The Syrian Period” of Egyptian Civilization—Egyptologists suppressing its proper title of “ Phoenician ’’ in the modern vogue of depreciating Phoenician influences. This ‘“ Syrian” fashion, which transformed and exalted Egyptian art and handicraft, was introduced about 1450 B.C. with the seizure and annexation of Phcenicia, and the carrying off captive to Egypt hundreds of the artists and skilled craftsmen of Tyre, Sidon, etc., as well as their chief art treasures as plunder. Writing of that great event, Sir F. Petrie tells us that the “ Syrians” [7.e., Phoenicians] “had a civilization equal or superior to that of Egypt, in taste and skill . . . luxury far beyond that of the Egyptians, and technical work which could teach them rather than be taught.’’? And great numbers of their artists and skilled workmen were carried off, and continued to be sent as tribute, to Egypt.* Significantly, these blue-glazed beads first appear in Egypt at the beginning of this Phcenician period, and they suddenly cease when the Phenicians regained more or less their independence from Egypt about 1250 B.c. The inference is thus obvious that the blue beads found at Stonehenge Circle and elsewhere in Britain are Phcenician in origin, and were carried there by Phcenicians of about that period. And here also it is to be noted that the finest of the art treasures recently unearthed at Luxor from the tomb of Tut-ankh-amen, along with those of his predecessor Akenaten the Sun-worshipper and his Hitto-Mitanian (or Mede) ancestors, which belong to this same period, and are admittedly of a naturalistic type foreign to previous Egyptian art, are also now disclosed as Aryan Phcenician.
‘H.R. Hall, J. Egypt, Archeology, 1. 18-19. *P.H.E.2, 146. *Jb., 147.