It was a very wise coup on the part of those responsible for the framing of our ritual to introduce a Tyrian artificer as the central figure.
True, our hero was a metal founder, but the works he did which interest us most were the Bronze Age counterparts of the upright members of the trilithon, probably the earliest Masonic erection in the world and whose oldest representatives standing to-day are in the region of 6,000 years old.
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1937 - Some Notes on the Ancient City of Tyre - Bro C V Wilmott.
