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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3608832, member: 84744"]OK TIF, but you gotta sing it next time. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  Great video!  I do hope you post the transcript... it needs to be googleable. The Egyptian iconography is certainly very intriguing.  Apparently quite a few Egyptian artifacts <a href="https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=l4vvg7DRlRYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA307&dq=ancient+egyptians+in+malta&ots=A87kLhVYfL&sig=v5E-Ll8ILl15Jr8wKv6vFFtzFgg#v=onepage&q=ancient%20egyptians%20in%20malta&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=l4vvg7DRlRYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA307&dq=ancient+egyptians+in+malta&ots=A87kLhVYfL&sig=v5E-Ll8ILl15Jr8wKv6vFFtzFgg#v=onepage&q=ancient%20egyptians%20in%20malta&f=false" rel="nofollow">have been found on Malta</a>.  Was there a resident Egyptian population? or were these just Egyptian traditions imported by the Phoenician/Punic traders and settlers?  How syncretic were these elements?  The Tanit symbol on your later coin is interesting in this regard. I'm struck by the similarity of the veiled head and the famous Ptolemaic octodrachms from a similar time period.  Coincidence?  (Malta must have had important trade relations with Ptolemaic Egypt, no?)[ATTACH=full]966324[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]