Pyramids In The Pacific III The Unwritten History Of Australia Chapter 9 “The Colony of Ham” Ancient Miners of Toowoomba O Tyre, you have said ‘I am perfect in beauty’ Your borders are in the heart of the seas… Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men […]
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Pyramids In The Pacific
Pyramids In The Pacific Part 2 The Unwritten History Of Australia Chapter 5 Sons of fire and Dwellers of darkness. Indians explore the Pacific. “Sons of the Sea, mighty to save discoverers of riches, ye Gods with deep thought who find out wealth” Hymn 136, 10th book of the Rig Veda. Chapter […]
Island-hopping study shows the most likely route the first people took to Australia
The view from Indonesia’s Rote Island towards Australia. Island-hopping study shows the most likely route the first people took to Australia The First Australians were among the world’s earliest great ocean explorers, undertaking a remarkable 2,000km maritime migration through Indonesia which led to the discovery of Australia at least 65,000 years […]
When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?
Humans would have first seen Kata Tjuta very shortly after arriving in Australia 50,000 years ago. Many Aboriginal Australians would say with conviction that they have always been here. Their ancestors and traditional learnings tell them of this history, and their precise place within it. Our review of the scientific […]
The discovery sent shockwaves through archaeology but the remains of Mungo Man still hold secrets of First Australians
AT A time when Europe was largely populated by Neanderthals, there was an ancient culture of far more sophistication Down Under. Michael Westaway and Arthur Durband, The Conversation Artefacts from Kakadu site reveal new details about the First Australians Skeleton of an Aboriginal man dug up in Lake Mungo in […]
Aboriginal Murder Mystery: What Killed Kaakutja?
A Crushing Blow Copied, compiled & edited by George W Rehder 06/06/2020 Nicknamed Kaakutja, meaning “older brother,” this skeleton of an Aboriginal man (right) rested for some 800 years near a southern Australian riverbank before being found in 2014… Aboriginal Murder Mystery: What Killed Kaakutja? Tantalizing glimpses into life and […]
The story of Australia’s last convicts (short story)
The Hougoumont, the last ship to take convicts from the UK to Australia, docked in Fremantle, Western Australia, on January 9, 1868 – 150 years ago. It brought an end to a process which deposited about 168,000 convicted prisoners in Australia after it began in 1788. Convicts had ceased to […]
The convict experience
In nineteenth century England, the sentence for a variety of crimes was transportation to Australia, a harsh punishment with many convicts never seeing their homeland again. The convict experience During the first 80 years of white settlement, from 1788 to 1868, 165,000 convicts were transported from England to Australia. […]
Convict ESCAPE STORIES
Western Australia with its harsh climate, unyielding vegetation and dangerous fauna, was for the early settlers and convicts a wild and forbidding place compared to the ‘tamed’ landscapes of England and Europe. Henderson regarded the Convict Establishment as a prison within a prison, and the Western Australian landscape a ‘vast […]
The story of Australia’s last convicts (short story)
The Hougoumont, the last ship to take convicts from the UK to Australia, docked in Fremantle, Western Australia, on January 9, 1868 – 150 years ago. It brought an end to a process which deposited about 168,000 convicted prisoners in Australia after it began in 1788. Convicts had ceased to […]
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