‘It could change everything’: coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
Experts believe they may have found a Kilwa coin that could change what we know about the history of global trade
It’s Anzac Day and the usually busy I-Med radiology clinic in Darwin is shiny and quiet, the public holiday giving the machines and their operators a break from the usual broken bones, brain scans and ultrasounds.
But then an archaeologist and a historian turn up, bringing with them a curious patient whose identity is unknown, but who may be 1,000 years old and could rewrite Australian history.