Right....and they were building 747's for about 300 years

do you have a link for this and why hasnt this been in the news as this would surely change the way we view history.

[edit on 14-4-2006 by XphilesPhan]

Ok, I apologise, you are correct....but how are thse africans if they are in tanzania, isnt that near australia? so they would be aborginal which is kind of interesting.

[edit on 14-4-2006 by XphilesPhan]

Tanzania= East coast Africa.
Tazmania= Southern (island of?) Australia

ok, lol well you can see how I made that mistake.

Originally posted by XphilesPhan
Right....and they were building 747's for about 300 years

do you have a link for this and why hasnt this been in the news as this would surely change the way we view history.

[edit on 14-4-2006 by XphilesPhan]

Actually, it might change the way YOU view history... but steelmaking (low grade) has been around for a very long time. I had some reason to look up metalsmithing last year (I think it was for an article I was writing) and found that iron smelting and low grade steelmaking has been around for milennia.

Details were given on the forges on the sites where I looked -- and I did check various scholarly sources on it.

So, yes, it hopefully will change your view of what the ancients were able to do! But no, it won't change the academics' views... turns out we've known about ancient iron forging and steel making for quite some time.

ok, lol well you can see how I made that mistake.

Yeah, it's a bit confusing, especially when Australia is a country in Europe.

But yeah, the 1st nation to make steel (very crude though) was infact India around 200 BC.

Australia? Surely you are getting yourself confused. It is Austria that is in Europe, right there next to Swaziland.

Interesting post. Cheers.

LoL so many errors here regarding australia. We're just pretty much sitting in the ocean all alone, we're an independant country, NZ is next to us, and tazmania is just off the tip of a southern part, still considered a part of australia. We have ties with the UK since we originally came from there and killed off alot of aboriginies here. But i'd say we're more American than anything else now : )

Originally posted by T0by
We have ties with the UK since we originally came from there and killed off alot of aboriginies here. But i'd say we're more American than anything else now : )

You mean like the queen on the money?

Or the way Texans always greet each other with a heartyk "G'day, Mate!"

Or in the fact that you only have 2 political parties . . . . .

No, I bet you were thinking of your nation's unreasoning fear of the metric system . . .