1000-year-old African coins found in Australia

[King Ming]

In 1770, British sea captain Lieutenant James Cook landed on the east coast of Australia, claiming the territory for England. But a new expedition led by an Australian anthropologist is seeking evidence of ancient explorations that may have taken place far before Cook and his fellow European explorers ever arrived on the continent.

The expedition, led by Ian McIntosh, a professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), will follow a nearly 70-year-old treasure map to an area where a cache of mysterious, 1,000-year-old coins were discovered in the 1940s, according to a IUPUI release.

The researchers hope to discover how the coins ended up in the sand -- whether they washed ashore from a shipwreck and whether they can provide more details about ancient trading routes.

Ancient African Coins Found In Australia Could Rewrite History; Team Seeks 1,000-Year-Old Evidence

 

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[King Ming]

So James Cook wasn't the first person to discover Australia

 

[mbewane]

I thought aboriginals "discovered" Australia

 

[p00rky]

oh shyt

 

[Blackking]

http://www.the-coli.com/higher-lear...s-fellas-let-me-holla-@-you.html#.UZzfQ8q-jNc

 

[88m3]

O wow

 

[Robbie3000]

Did you read the comments? These cacs find it hard to even consider giving other people credit for anything?

 

[blackzeus]

Did you read the comments? These cacs find it hard to even consider giving other people credit for anything?

Don't you see the Arabic looking inscription on the coins, it was white Berber muslims The audacity of being the first to discover a place when people are already living there. That's like a black person coming over here and being the first to discover Chicago F*ck outta here.

 

[malbaker86]

 

[Leasy]

Why is this news the Ancient Egyptians shipwrecked there thousands of years ago.

 

[the mechanic]

http://www.the-coli.com/higher-lear...s-fellas-let-me-holla-@-you.html#.UZzfQ8q-jNc

What was your point? or are you just butthurt by that powerful thread..

Or perhaps you know nothing about Australia

let me bring you to the light

this is a native australian

Australia is only 2500 miles away from the East coast of africa...

The East african coastal people traded with india and even china which are even further away.

Only clueless people are surprised that east africans who had ships that sailed to india and china could also make it to australia

 

[Bud Bundy]

I wonder where they set sail from.

 

[Leasy]

What was your point? or are you just butthurt by that powerful thread..

Or perhaps you know nothing about Australia

let me bring you to the light

this is a native australian

Australia is only 2000 miles away from the East coast of africa...

The East african coastal people traded with india and even china which are even further away.

Only clueless people are surprised that east africans who had ships that sailed to india could also make it to australia

Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't Africans giving giraffes as gifts to chinese emperors centuries upon centuries ago.

 

[Robbie3000]

What was your point? or are you just butthurt by that powerful thread..

Or perhaps you know nothing about Australia

let me bring you to the light

this is a native australian

Australia is only 2500 miles away from the East coast of africa...

The East african coastal people traded with india and even china which are even further away.

Only clueless people are surprised that east africans who had ships that sailed to india and china could also make it to australia

yup.