Ancient Egyptians in Australia

"For two seasons he made his way westward, weary, but strong to the end. Always praying, joyful, and smiting insects. He, the servant of God, said God brought the insects…Have gone around hills and deserts, in wind and rain, with no lakes at hand… He was killed while carrying the Golden Falcon Standard up front in a foreign land, crossing mountains, desert and water along the way. "

Originally posted by THENEO
Wow cool stuff, new to me.

Quite possible, remember that ancient egypt was not all a desert as it appears today. The oceans were possibly smaller and more shallow in those times and travel may have been easier for the ancients. There may have been more land mass in the Atlantic and Pacific ocean areas also to land at during long journeys.

Originally posted by TheDemonHunter
The reason that nobody has found any remnants of these prehistoric sea-going Australian settlements is quite simple. There are over 3 million square kilometers of Greater Australia that were submerged by rising sea levels between 16,000 and 7,000 years ago. Where the coast is now, was once far inland. So coastal settlements of the era involved would now be on the ocean floor.

Originally posted by insite



Though your historical geography may be good, it does not really relate to the cultural aspects of early australian life. Aboriginals are some of the oldest people on the planet and are nomadic hunter gatherers. This means that structures were few and far between. Sea-going prehistoric settlements would just pick up and move inland with the encroaching sea. Aboriginals are nomads, water moving inland only gave them another reason to move. Keep in mind this took place over thousands of years, no cultural heritage would have been lost as a result of this geographic phenomenon.

Originally posted by insite


Hate to burst your bubble mate but yes it is. Australia is pretty much on a par land mass wise as the USA.

And I cant check this out unfortunately, I'm about 14 hours drive away from Sydney too.

[I]n 1975, Casare Emiliani, of the University of Miami, studies the fossil remnants of microscopic organisms under the sediments of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. From his studies, he concluded that...[11,000] years ago,...the Gulf of Mexico contained water that was much less salty than it is today. He suggests that the ice sheets had undergone sudden melting and that a vast flood of water had entered the Gulf of Mexico and raised the sea level markedly.

The suggestion was largely ignored because it was difficult to imagine the ice melting that fast, but, in 1989, John Shaw...made a suggestion as to...how such floods might come about.

The region where once the ice sheets were found have a scattering of low hills called "drumlins." These are usually supposed to have been formed by [the] grinding action of glaciers as they came and went. Shaw, however, feels [that] they may, more easily, have been formed by a rush of water.

He suggests that the ice sheets did, indeed, melt very slowly but that the water did not necessarily run off, soak into the ground, pour into rivers and reach the sea as rapidly as it formed.

Instead, water might have slowly settled down to the bottom of the ice sheet, soaked into the ground until it reached the bedrock and slowly accumulated there. There would, thus, form what was, essentially, a lake of water under the ice sheet, and this would be prevented, by ice dams, from spreading outward.

Eventually, though, as the glaciers continued very slowly to melt, sections of the ice dam would waken and...break. The lake of ice water that had been pent up would then pour out seaward in a vast flood that beggars anything we can imagine.

Shaw has calculated that something like [20,000] cubic miles of water may have poured out of the ice all at once to form the drumlin fields of northern Saskatchewan....

The Amazon River, the largest on Earth, takes ten years to discharge [20,000] cubic miles of water into the Atlantic Ocean, but the ice lake may have discharged it in a matter of a few days only.

Originally posted by Byrd


Hieroglyphic writing was developed only 1800 years ago and we do have good examples of the oldest forms of it.

Originally posted by TheBandit795
Correction here... On that same link you posted it says this "He says they are nearly 4,000 years old, dating from around 1800 to 1900 BC."