Ancient Britons Traveled Broadly

New archaeological research from Kent, England, shows people were traveling to and from Britain 1,000 years before Christ (The Times, June 5, 2013).

Research measuring strontium levels in teeth enamel (absorbed from drinking water while enamel is being formed in childhood) demonstrated that immigrants came from Sweden and Norway, as well as the western Mediterranean—which could include Spain and North Africa—to England (ibid.). Some also left Britain, lived abroad, and returned several years later (ibid.). Spain and Gaul were areas the Israelites and even the Apostles traveled to (Romans 15:24, 28).

The Church of God (and other sources) has long understood that Israelites migrated to the British Isles and were visited there by the Apostles. While critics ridicule these ideas, mounting evidence from DNA and chromosomal studies, including this new study on isotopes in teeth, confirm the traveling nature of the inhabitants of ancient Britain, including travel from regions where the Israelites were known to be. For more information on this topic, view our Tomorrow’s World telecast, “The Apostles’ Amazing Journeys.”