The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons

About this book

L. A. Waddell believed that Britain owed its earliest civilisation to Phoenicians and Sumerians. Coins, inscriptions and similarities between names become the pieces of a grand theory of ancient migration.

The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons was criticised by scholars soon after publication, and its linguistic methods are not accepted today. Waddell's illustrations and readings reveal the excitement that accompanied archaeological discovery, together with the racial and national assumptions that shaped his interpretation. The physical objects deserve attention; the proposed history built from them demands much greater scepticism.