The Bronze Age in Europe
383.) He says, "It seems surprising that the nearest neighbors of the Phœnicians--the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and the Romans--should have manufactured plumbiferous bronzes, while the Phœnicians carried to the people of the North only pure bronzes without the alloy of lead.
The Etruscans, moreover, were acquainted with the use of iron as well as the Phœnicians, and it has already been seen that the composition of their bronzes is different, since it contains lead, which is entirely a stranger to our bronze epoch.
We must look, then, beyond both the Etruscans and Phœnicians in attempting to identify the commerce of the Bronze Age of our palafittes.
And as this commerce could not, as we have seen, have been carried on by the Romans, Greeks, Etruscans, or Phœnicians, because their civilizations flourished during the Iron Age, to which this age of bronze was anterior, where then are we to look for a great maritime and commercial people, who carried vast quantities of copper, tin, and bronze (unalloyed by the lead of the south of Europe) to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, England, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy?
If the bronze implements of Europe had been derived from the Phœnicians, Greeks, Etruscans, or Romans, the nearer we approached the site of those nations the greater should be the number of bronze weapons we would find; but the reverse is the case.
What race was there, other than the people of Atlantis, that existed before the Iron Age-before the Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Phœnician--that was civilized, that worked in metals, that carried on a commerce with all parts of Europe?
The Origin of Our Alphabet
valley of the Nile, and we find that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for n was the serpent, ; the Pelasgian n was ; the Arcadian, ; the Etruscan, .
One of the Etruscan signs for b was , while the Pelasgian b was represented
In the oldest known form of the Phœnician alphabet, that found on the Moab stone, we find in the same way but one sign to express the d and t. D does not occur on the Etruscan monuments, t being used in its place.
The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
The Etruscan belief that evil spirits strove for the possession of the dead was found among the Mosquito Indians.
The Story of Atlantis
The "false arch"—horizontal courses of stone, each slightly overlapping the other—is found to be identical in Central America, in the oldest buildings of Greece, and in Etruscan remains.
The early Etruscans, the Phœnicians, including the Carthaginians and the Shumero-Akkads, were branches of this race, while the Basques of to-day have probably more of the Akkadian than of any other blood which flows in their veins.
The Sea Peoples and the Philistines
Tjeker: Possibly related to the Trojans or the Etruscans.
Possibly related to the Trojans or the Etruscans of Italy.
How the Bear Lost His Tail
Origin: Both cave bears and brown bears are descended from the Etruscan bear (Ursus etruscus), which lived from about 5.3 million years ago (Mya) to 100,000 years ago.
The oldest son of Noah
The Etruscans, whose bronze artifacts resemble those from Atlantis, are now believed to be part of the Turanian family.
Isaac Taylor's discovery of Etruscan numerals matching the Altaic branch of the Turanian languages supports this connection.
The Colonies of Atlantis
Their architecture, such as the Palenque arch, resembles ancient Greek constructions like the "Treasure-house of Atreus" at Mycenae and Etruscan vaults.
Wakes and Funeral Feasts: Identical to those of Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans.