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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 7

There has just been laid before the French Academy of Sciences a wellauthenticated case of prehistoric Egyptian remains found among the prehistoric remains of ancient Gaul. The connection between Gaul and Egypt was established in this way : A card of cut flints of the Neolithic period was obtained from Egypt, and a card of exactly similar flints found on Riou Island, nine miles from Marseilles, was shown with them. At the spot on the island where these flints were excavated there were found lying nearest the surface some Roman pottery ; below that Greek pottery, with Ligurian and Egyptian still lower, and below these, again, masses of marine shells pottery and flints, different from any yet found. The remains found go back for at least 5,000 years. ■ ■■ ■ ■ i i* i »i i i j .