According to the Egyptian Texts, Pharaoh and his army caught the Jews in the midst of their Red Sea crossing and slaughtered better than half of them before the waters swept them away as well. Weakened by plagues that devastated the whole world, the misery of Egypt was only half-fulfilled.

Militarily decimated, Egypt's treasuries and granaries became the prized targets of the starved hoards who invaded from the South. Much blood was shed to repel them. Yet, there was an even worse fate in store. The Egyptians were shaken to their national core by an experience many times worse than 9-11. This is because 9-11 never made America lose it's faith in God, whereas Exodus left the Egyptians with impotent and unworthy gods.

As the Jews wandered the Sinai writing their Torah, a studious new Pharaoh and his humbled Egyptian intelligentsia reasoned that Jews were onto something, so they resolved themselves to find the one true God of Abraham. What ensued was perhaps one of the most remarkable wisdom-gathering events of the ancient world as the Egyptian intelligentsia fanned out to the farthest reaches of the kingdom's trading sphere to conduct a first ever regional anthropological study.

During the day, scribes and academics conducted business as usual, and then during off hours, they interviewed the wisest of many lands. Their field notes accompanied usual shipments back to Egypt and were then compiled into a secular work titled the Great Book. Penned in an ancient hieratic script, the Great Book was over four times the size of The King James Bible, and one part titled the Sons of Fire contains a significant amount of ancient Phoenician folklore; an ancient maritime nation well worth remembering.

The Phoenicians were the first mariners to navigate their ships by Polaris, the North Star, and to circumnavigate the African continent. Their primary trade routes stretched through the Mediterranean; up along the Western shores of Europe; and North to Britain. During the late Bronze Age, Britain was a major exporter of tin, which when smelted with copper, makes bronze. Savvy traders, the Phoenicians plied the waters between the Middle East and Britain carrying lucrative cargoes of Egyptian papyrus and British tin.