Steven & Evan Strong: Forgotten Origins, Out-of Place-Artifacts, Australia

Summary

A remarkable discovery of a Chinese imperial seal in Northern Australia challenges established historical narratives about early Chinese presence in the region. This artefact, associated with Daoist worship, indicates possible ancient maritime connections between Asia and Australia. Experts suggest that the seal's sophisticated craftsmanship provides evidence of advanced metallurgy long before known contact.

Key takeaways

• 1The copper-alloy seal features eight Chinese characters linked to the deity 'Tiger-tamer Marshal Zhao of the Dark Altar'.
• 2Discovered in May 2022 near Tortilla Flats, Northern Territory, Australia by John Miltenburg and local researchers.
• 3The artefact demonstrates advanced nine-fold casting and high-temperature metallurgy techniques.
• 4No evidence of modern habitation or trade was found near the seal's location, raising questions about its origins.
• 5Initial analyses conducted by Ed Liu and reviewed by Dr Luk Yu-ping from the British Museum.

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Hey, come on in and have a seat, let's talk. We're heading to Australia today and meeting with our friends Stephen and Evan Strong of the Forgotten Origins group are also they do the conference Our Ancient Ancestry and they have been working and talking and reporting on a wonderful discovery made out in the outback of a Chinese imperial seal made of a composite of metals, very very unusual composite and so far, and we're gonna hear news today. So far the dates that have been coming up are around between fifteen to twenty excuse me, one thy five hundred years to one thousand, eight hundred years in age. And this brings up one of my favorite topics because I'm constantly writing about it, human migrations. And the current body of thinking is that people traveled through land. The big one for the United United States, the North American South American continents are that early humans traveled from Asia which is today Russia, across a ice bridge or a land land bridge that was iced over into Alaska and then down into present day Canada, United States, Mexico and so forth. And this is held up for many, many many years until the last couple of decades. But the problem is that this information takes years to trickle down into our history books and into places like the National Geographic, the Smithsonian and these other adjuquated, out of touched publications. And I love the image of the Photography and National Geographic. I used to collect them fascinating wonderful works of art, but they're outdated, and they're outdated because they're using outdated information. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Feb 7, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.