Friday 20 September 2019

Destination Tarshish for Tea, Toast and Tin!

For many years historians and archeologists have poured over writings, manuscripts, maps, and the like searching for the top secret source of the Phoenicians tin they brought into the eastern Mediterranean.  For the Bronze age to be the bronze age they needed a solid source of tin and the Phoenicians had the just the spot, only they didn’t tell anyone.  Even the great historian Herodotus could not put his finger on it, but this week the lab results are in and we now have the conformation so many have looked for.
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