Discovering and deciphering AustraliaBy csharpAustralia is a fantastic place to live, it has a multi cultural society its vast land, beaches and open coastlines. It is famous for it?s Gold, iron ore just to name some, I could go on and on.
The first records of European mariners sailing into 'Australian' waters occurs around 1606, and includes their observations of the land known as Terra Australis Incognita (unknown southern land). The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon.
Between 1606 and 1770, an estimated 54 European ships from a range of nations made contact. Many of these were merchant ships from the Dutch East Indies Company and included the ships of Abel Tasman. Tasman charted parts of the north, west and south coasts of Australia which was then known as New Holland.
In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour.
Cook claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III of England on 22 August 1770 at Possession Island, naming eastern Australia 'New South Wales'. The coast of Australia, featuring Tasmania as a separate island, was mapped in detail by the English mariners and navigators Bass and Flinders, and the French mariner, Baudin. A nearly completed map of the coastline was published by Flinders in 1814.
In recent years I wanted to know more about the Australia I live in so I decided to investigate and compile a lot of notes in which I would like to share for all to read.
I hope you find reading this as interesting as it was for me in the aim of opening up a Pandora?s box for knowledge.
Many publicized theories about as to which ancients visited this land eons ago. Egyptians, Arabians, Sumerians, Romans, Greeks, Libyans, Phoenicians, Asian Indians, Chinese, American Indians, Mayans, Vikings and Polynesians have all been suggested.
It appears ancient mariners from China had a long and perhaps closer relationship with the great south land than previously thought. Ancient Chinese Scrolls record two Australian solar eclipses in 592 BC and 553 BC.
The Egyptians Scripts, recorded their experiences of an Australian eclipse in 232 BC which is recorded within unique cave wall carvings and writings discovered in Irian Jaya which was formally north-west New Guinea.
It also appears almost certain when one considers other Aboriginal rock paintings of sailing craft and clothed figures located at various locations in north-western Australia, Northern Territory, Torres Strait and Central Queensland islands.
12th Century Viking records identified Australia as 'Solar Partistra ? the sun burnt land'
Australian Mysteries that have been recorded but have yet to be answered:The Gympie Pyramid. This pyramid structure was situated to the north-east of Gympie. It was 100 feet high and consisted of a series of terraces up to 4 feet tall and eight feet across and was constructed of small to larger lumps of localized stone. It had three entrances. There was also another structure nearby. Incidentally, a similar structure existed at Penrith, New South Wales and five others exist in the eastern Sepik region of Papua New Guinea and that these in turn matched other examples found in Egypt. There is also an early history of the possible gold mining activity in the area that took place at that time.
Grecian coin c. 23 BC. and more scarabs were found in Cairns / Gordonvale regions as well as rock inscriptions. In1910 and 1978 suggesting that a second Egyptian colony had begun c. 200 ? 300 BC
2000 year-old Greek and Ptolemaic coins were found at numerous coastal locations in northern Australia.
The most notable was one found by Andrew Henderson in 1910 at the Barron Falls near Cairns, Queensland. It was identified as a Ptolemy IV bronze coin bearing a recognizable head of the horned Zeus of Ommon. It was 40mm in diameter and 6mm thick and regarded as a priceless relic. It was apparently identified by the Brisbane Numismatic Society c. 1959 as being minted in Barce, Cyrenaica during the reign of Pharaoh Ptolemy IV who ruled from c. 221 to 204 BC. The reverse side shows an eagle riding a thunderbolt ? a Ptolemaic insignia.
A golden scarab was found on the eastern side of Mothar Mountain east of Gympie in 1959 along with strange inscriptions on a large rock in the same region.
Aboriginal drawings at the Herberton Aboriginal Gallery in North Queensland, depict an Egyptian Nile plant.
An engineer Mr. W. Johnstone while on a bush surveying expedition came across a moss covered slab of what was thought to be stone but was in fact, a slab of cut marble. It was recovered and cleaned to reveal symbols cut into the stone of an unknown origin but in fact resembled Egyptian. Apparently Australian Museums ignored all the photographs but the British Museum identified the inscriptions as possibly Phoenician.
Just east of Gympie, Queensland, in the 1930's, a highly respected early pioneer of the forest industry while inspecting new areas of old forests between Mt. Wolvi and Mt. Wahpunga west of Lakes Como and Cootharaba in the Cooloola National Park region, uncovered a very ancient 37cm chalice with removable lid/handle embedded in the clay of an old gully water flow. The bronzed-pewter artifact displayed ornate hand-beaten or cast decorations depicting Grecian ribboned heads, lion-head motifs and many other forms of imprint. The handle was missing but points where it was attached can be seen. The chalice-type artifact may have been a wine decanter; or a water jar; an ornate drinking cup (with lid); or possibly an oil/wax light burner. One side had been damaged and holed. In 1998, the current owner of the artifact consulted two antique dealers. In their opinion, they believed the object was extremely old and possibly Egypt-Greek because of the patterns displayed. Today's interest centre?s on how such an object could have been found in such an inaccessible jungle place where at that time, Europeans would have never travelled or resided. Incidentally, the location where it was found is approximately half-way between Lake Cootharaba north of Noosa and the 'pyramid' site just east of Gympie and near to recently discovered pre-European quarry in the lakes region.
A 2000 year-old axe blade identified as Middle-Eastern was found in 1960 in inland New South Wales.
An amber glass obelisk-shaped pin at least 5000 years was found in a field at Kyogle in Northern New South Wales in 1983.
During building site excavations at Sydney, a perfectly preserved old war mask was found by architect Mr. Neil Durbach of Sydney. Archaeologists have reputedly dated it as being at least 2000 to 3000 years old and of ancient Aztec origins. It is believed that it may have originated from the Inca fortress of Sasay Ituaman in Peru.
A 4th century BC Egyptian figurine and a Roman seal ring (both of which were authenticated) were discovered at The Rocks in Sydney.
An onyx rock carved in the form of a scarab was dug up by a man near the Nepean River outside Penrith, New South Wales, which lies on the eastern side of the Blue Mountains, where, at Katoomba some years ago, council workmen dug up from a depth of 18 feet, a small black stone bearing Phoenician letterings believed to spell the name Thuffi.
In early 2004, a lucky Central New South Wales treasure hunter metal detecting around an old house built in the 1880's found a Roman coin (Billon Antoninus of Carinus) minted between 283 AD - 285AD).
In 2002, a treasure hunter using a metal detector at Port Phillip Bay found a Roman coin depicting Lucinus I c. 307 ? 324 AD.
An Australian 'Stonehenge' was discovered on the Nullarbor Plains, South Australia by Mr. Len Beadell while surveying areas for atomic tests at the time.
Ancient Aboriginal cave paintings depict European women and bearded men wearing Babylonian-styled hats exist in the Kimberley ranges of N.W. Australia. These can still be seen today.
Miners in the north of Australia, found ancient open-cut copper mines in the Kimberley coastal area where fragments of Palestinian and other pottery have been unearthed. Similar mines dug by Libyans around 2200 years ago were purportedly located in West Irian jaya with nearby ancient rock inscriptions.
Non-Aboriginal stone hieroglyphics were found at the Olgas and Palm Creek in the Northern Territory.
Egyptian artifacts and a stone scarab were found in 1960 near the Daly River in the Northern Territory.
Aboriginal paintings on Groote Island off the Northern Territory coast clearly depict ancient ships.
Now for the Cream ? Egyptians (supported by very early Aboriginal legends) tell of a time when the sun rose in the west and set in the east ? the reverse of today. Does this indicate that the Earth's axis changed so that they experienced the reversal of the North and South Poles?
Archaeologists have indicated by radiocarbon dating that ancient human occupation of the continent goes back to at least 22,000 years BC. Anthropologists are said to place ancient human occupations at 30,000 to 40,000 years BC. More modern techniques can now place such occupations to at least 160,000 years BC.
Very ancient Egyptian writings state that their civilization learnt to build the pyramids from an ancient people who once came from a great south land in the east (could this be Australia).
Australia ? Could this be the very first ancient land!
I hope you all enjoyed this compilation.
regards
Anthony a.k.a (csharp)
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