New Book Claims Irish Have Egyptian Ancestry
Tuesday, August 22, 2000 By Jan Battles
Are the Irish descended from the pharaohs of Egypt? According to a new book,
the ancient Egyptians established a colony in Ireland 3,500 years ago, after
landing in Co. Kerry.
Corbis
A decorative Celtic Gravestone in an old cemetery near Loch Cloon in County
Kerry.
The invaders were led by Princess Scota, the daughter of a pharaoh who fled
her native land, according to Lorraine Evans, an Egyptologist and author of
Kingdom of the Ark, due to be published this week.
Evans says Scota is buried in a valley in Co. Kerry where she died after a
bloody war with indigenous Irish people. After her death, her descendants
went on to become the high kings of Ireland at Tara in Co. Meath and then
invaded Scotland.
The book is the "startling story of how the ancient British race is descended
from the pharaohs," according to its publishers, Simon & Schuster. Evans uses
old texts along with archeological, linguistic and DNA evidence to show that
Irish and British people descended from Egyptians.
According to the book, Scota fought the Irish in the battle of Slieve Mish.
She was killed and buried in a valley called Scota's Glen, about five miles
from Tralee. The grave is marked by a slab but has never been excavated.
Ancient Irish texts and pseudo-historical accounts of prehistory contain
several references to a Princess Scota, daughter of a pharaoh. Evans searched
through Egyptian manuscripts and believes that Scota's real name was
Meritaten and she was a daughter of Akhenaten and a half-sister of
Tutankhamen. Meritaten disappeared from Egypt around the time that Princess
Scota is said to have landed in Kerry.
Evans also claims that a body discovered at Tara in excavations in the 1950s
could be Egyptian. Of an adolescent boy dubbed the Tara prince, it was
discovered by archaeologists in the Mound of the Hostages on the hill of
Tara. Evans says it substantiates her theory. The boy had been interred and
not cremated as was usual in Bronze Age rituals. A necklace containing
Egyptian blue fa�ence beads, dated about 1400 B.C., was discovered around the
boy's neck.
"I have asked for DNA samples to be taken from the body of the Tara prince
and Egyptian mummies to see if we can trace a genetic marker for similarities
but they won't allow it at the moment," said Evans. "The fact that he was not
cremated indicates he was a very important person. The body was buried and
these artifacts appeared at exactly the same time as ancient texts said this
Egyptian princess and her followers descended upon Ireland."
A lecturer in Egyptology, Evans has found 286 fa�ence beads around Britain.
She says that a wooden boat, of an identical design and construction as one
discovered at the Great Pyramid in Egypt, was unearthed in Hull, East
Yorkshire. It was radiocarbon dated to about 1400 B.C., and also suggested
her theory was correct. Genetic similarities have also been found between
British and north African people and linguistic similarities traced between
the Celtic and ancient Egyptian languages.
Bronze Age shields found on the Dingle peninsula were identical to ones
discovered in Spain that were shown to be ancient Egyptian weaponry, Evans
says. Her theory has been derided by fellow archaeologists, however, who say
that the Egyptian artifacts were brought to Ireland by traders from other
European countries.
Conor Newman, a University College Galway lecturer, said that while the body
at Tara suggested the individual was of high standing, it did not mean that
Egyptians lived in Ireland. "It is stretching the evidence. The texts she is
basing her work on are mythology; there is no empirical evidence," he said.
George Eogan, chairman of the Discovery Program that has been studying Tara,
said: "There is not one iota of archeological evidence to support it."
Michael Connolly of Aegis Archeology in Tralee said Scota's grave was not
even an archeological site: rather it was a natural rock formation. At the
turn of the last century a British-Israelite expedition dug up part of the
hill of Tara in search of the Ark of the Covenant which they believed was
buried there. Nothing was found.
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