Author Archives: the late Valerie Martlew
ANCIENT MARINERS
UK IT is not generally known how great were the voyages undertaken by people in ancient times, for the emphasis has been on voyages like those of Marco Polo and Columbus, which were comparatively late in the history of seafaring. In fact, mankind has been undertaking long hazardous voyages by sea for millennia, and travel…
THE LOST CELTS OF CHINA [1998]
UK In March 1998 the “Times” featured an article about some 3,000 year-old mummies found preserved in the desert of Western China, and there was a television programme on the subject. Scientists were astonished, not only by the wonderful preservation of these bodies, but also by their racial type, which is so very unlike present…
THE EARLY BRITISH CHURCH
UK Even the Roman Church acknowledges the fact that the Christian Church was established in the British Isles in the first century AD, long before Augustine ever landed on the shores of Kent. In 1931, Pope Pius XI stated that Christianity was first introduced into England by St. Paul. His address to some visiting members…
BIBLE ECONOMICS – AGRICULTURE
UK Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous Murrain. (Exodus 9:3)  In the last sixty/seventy years we have experienced at first hand the results of…
HYGIENE IN THE BIBLE
UK Millennia before the discovery that bacteria and viruses triggered diseases, and the realisation that cleanliness was important in prevention, Moses wrote down laws of hygiene for the Children of Israel. He was far in advance of his time, for the prevailing wisdom of the Egyptians and the Babylonians, who had contemporary cultures, was that…
