From the article: "Given the limited technology at the time and the lack of roads, the most plausible way for the ingots to have reached modern-day Israel was by sea"

From the paper: "Direct contacts between the British Isles and the Eastern Mediterranean are not assured at present, while inter-regional and international trade networks between the latter and northern and central Europe seem to be well documented for the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE [145–148]. "

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