http://www.theage.com.au/national/ancient-discovery-set-to-rewrite-australian-history-20130519-2juck...
...........five coins were found in the Northern Territory in 1944 that have proven to be 1000 years old, opening up the possibility that seafarers from distant countries might have landed in Australia much earlier than what is currently believed
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The coins raise many important questions: How did 1000-year-old coins end up on a remote beach on an island off the northern coast of Australia?
Did explorers from distant lands arrive on Australian shores way before James Cook claimed it for the British throne in 1770?
We do know already that Captain Cook wasn’t the first white seafarer to step on Australia’s shores.
In 1606 a Dutch explorer named Willem Janszoon reached the Cape York peninsula in Queensland, closely followed a few years late by another Dutch seafarer Dirk Hartog.
I was taught in school that James Cook was the first to discover Australia. Then I read about the dutch now this. It's kinda an eye opener when new evidence changes your world view.
What have you found out now that were different to what you were taught in school?
