I could watch Tony Robinson history shows and travelogues all day long. Fantastic presenter.

Mr Tony Robinson, " you are one of The most brilliant AND intelligent delivering The documentaries, history of the Past Kings AND Queens AND all historical Counteris BRAWO, BRAWO 👏 👏

...."i've got a cunning plan"....,I'm going to subscribe! 😆

Tony is the best, Love watching him. He is funny and witty. Keep making more!!!!!!!!!!!

Tony Robinson explains history so well, fantastic guy and a legend

.THANK YOU Sir Tony. I didnt know my history until you came along

HAIL Sir Tony Robinson !!!!

That ship.jpeg in the back of shot gave me a proper laugh

Before 1901 there was no country Australia. The First Fleet arrived in New South Wales as named by Cook in 1770, and established as a British Colony by Phillip in 1788. It comprised the Eastern half of the Continent,New Zealand and other islands.

i luv u tony robsinson

At school in the 70s, we were taught that Dirk Hartog had left a plate on a post on an island off west Australia. William Dampier explored the nth west( the Dampier archipelago is named after him). Van deiman had named Tasmania(van diemans land) Long before the English arrived. The Dutch had maps of west Coast, new Zealand was already being settled, the maccasins were trading with the Aboriginals in the north of Australia. All this happened long before captain cook claimed the east coast. It was very obvious that cook did not discover Australia and any one who claims that we weren't taught this in school is at best , ignorant and dumb or at worst lying. The French knew of the great southern land and arrived just days after the first fleet. (La Perouse, just South of Sydney is named after him). When Mathew Flinders was sent to circumnavigate and see if Australia had an inland sea splitting the country in two, there was also a French expedition( led by Boudin) doing the same thing at the same time. They met up in the south of Australia.

when was this documentary made?

9:28 ff - As my 104 year-old Sicilian barber would say, “bull$#*t@to”...

Usually it makes me cross if theres so many ads through a video, u want to watch the video not ads! But hey, this is Tony Robinson, hes good so, it's ok if hes paid for what he does...and I'll tell u what Tony, if u make my family history come to life as well as u do with world history, I wont mind if u add a few more ads! Lol...

I believe Cook insisted on a coal ship.

Phillip did not forget the lime, he knew very well that on any coast line sea shells were common. If you burnt and crushed then you got a form of lime.

I love the way Tony Robinson presents things, but even he is not allowed to make up history. The terms "avocado" and "barbeque" do NOT come from Australia. "Ahuacatl" is the Aztec name for "avocado", which comes from Mexico, and the name "barabicu" is Arawak Native American (Caribbean Indians) -- via old Spanish -- which meant "roasting meat over a wooden frame." So, please do one's homework when stating facts in order to support the credibility of the rest of the show.

I haven’t watched this yet but the positive vibe makes me think that the destruction of the natives is going to be skipped over.

lucky sods to going to different country

Tony looks right into you, like he's taking the piss...!!!!

he chucked the sausage from the hotdog in the bin lol

Wtf why are there like 3 different shows that are all just the same footage in different orders?

No convicts in South Australia

Sorry but who puts souwer crout on a hot dog lol never have i seen that in australia i no that much

I'll go rhythm

when is he going to do a show about Canada?!

that moment when this video is blocked in australia lololol

There are Egyptian Hieroglyphs carve on a rock wall in Australia.

No not 47000 years.

The Egyptian visitors has since been proven false.

Egyptians? Isn’t that just a little far-fetched, mate?

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Welcome to the penal colony of Port Jackson, woyld you like garlic or chilli sauce on your kebab?

Okay... Pausing at a minute in to read the description because I couldn't have seen what I thought I saw but apparently I did. The Kariong hieroglyphs are so fucking fake it's not funny. This site baffles me, not because it exists but because anybody with the most basic understanding of hieroglyphs can read the name of one of the most famous pharoahs in history... and it's "spelled" wrong but nobody ever seems to mention it. The 'local folklore' @9:40 is utter bullshit made up by people who don't have a the slightest clue about hieroglyphics. Those two birds are not brothers and that snake didn't bite either of them. Those hieroglyphs are alphabetical. They are letters no different to our ABCs. The bird corresponds with our letter U and the horned viper is the letter F. There is actually a fourth hieroglyph here but we'll get to it in a moment. There is no possible way to interpret these hieroglyphs in any kind of narrative sense. I say that it's "spelled" wrong because that series of hieroglyphs is inside a cartouche, which isn't a cartouche so much as a vague recollection of a cartouche and a serekh combined. Regardless of how appallingly bad it is drawn, it is clearly meant to be a cartouche and that can mean only one thing: the name of a pharoah. I thought I saw a glimmer of recognition in Tony's face when he saw the hieroglyphs in question and the fact that the fourth hieroglyph within the 'cartouche' is at all times off camera suggests that he probably did instantly recognise what it says. Again, it's ridiculously easy to read and the fact that it's inside a 'cartouche' demands that it's the name of a pharoah rather than any kind of narrative. So far as that alleged narrative goes, Egypt has a couple of things in common with Australia: crocodiles and venomous snakes. Cobras are everywhere in Egyptian iconography, and they used a variety of hieroglyphs to denote all things serpentine. A snake bite is not something new and unfamiliar that Egyptians had no words for. If an Egyptian were to be bitten by a snake and felt the need to write about it he would have had plenty of words, and individual hieroglyphs, at his disposal. Apparently, however, our shipwrecked scribe just drew a snake. This site, near Gosford in NSW, was discovered in the 1970s and identified as a 1920s 'Pharoah Fever' meeting/party location of a club from UNSW(?). It was made popular at the turn of the century by Rex Gilroy, a man who has spent his life 'discovering' out-of-place artefacts, such as Roman busts, Greek coins, Hebrew inscriptions, and Phoenician settlements, all over the country. Said items are kept in his museum and the locations of his 'finds' are kept secret from the archaeologists who would destroy them. To be fair, some of his 'discoveries', such as standing stones, are authentic sites (I personally confirmed the existence of a stone circle south of Sydney, which was destroyed in the 1960s to make way for a football field) BUT he just makes shit up and attributes them to Celts, Vikings, and Hebrews, rather than the obvious Aboriginal peoples. For example, based on alleged inscriptions found nearby, he identifies an ochre mine as being used by (I kid you not) Phoenicians, Celts, Libyans, and Egyptians, rather than the locals who have been using ochre for literally tens of thousands of years. While you can't quite call him Eurocentric, his views certainly seem to add up to "anyone but Aboriginals". Remember that fourth hieroglyph I mentioned? This happens to be one of those cases where the source of a 'translation error' can be readily identified. In an article in the July-August 2002 edition of Hard Evidence magazine, spruiking his book Pyramids in the Pacific, where Gilroy attempts to 'prove' the Kariong hieroglyphs by linking them to a variety of his other sites, he gives a translation for the name as X-u-net-u. Where the 'net' part came from is anyone's guess (that snake can only be an F) but the X is quite obvious, especially since he translates another name in a nearby 'cartouche' as Anx-renp-re-u. That X is not an X, it's the Greek letter Chi, used in E. A. Wallis Budge's dictionary to represent the sound 'kh', such as in Ankh. The fourth hieroglyph is correctly identified as a sieve by Gilroy but he gives it the value of X rather than Kh. There's no ifs, buts, or maybes, about this, the name in that 'cartouche' is KHUFU, builder of the Great Pyramid. Why is arguably the second or third most famous pharoah in Egyptian history (after Tutankhamen (or Tutanxamun if you'd prefer... ) and Cleopatra) effectively glossed over in so many discussions of this site? When he IS mentioned, it is only in passing as the father of the "prince" shipwrecked in Australia, rather than the Pharoah who sent him here. People should be wetting themselves over mention of Khufu and he should be the very first fucking thing mentioned in any discussion of this site but he's not. There should, at the very least, be people pointing out Khufu's building of the Great Pyramid and his Solar Barques as circumstantial evidence to back up their claims but I've only seen that once or twice in almost 20 years. Could it have anything to do with this being the sole reference to this 'Prince Nefer-Djeseb' anywhere in the world? Why would Khufu send his son to a far off land and make no mention of it anywhere? Why did the Egyptians fail to mention that one of Khufu's sons sailed off never to return? On that note, why did the Egyptians never make even the vaguest reference to outposts thousands of miles, and two oceans, away, when Khufu himself made such a big deal about receiving gold from the far away land of Punt, in the Horn of Africa, and his successor Sahure sent an expedition there only a few decades later? Punt is worth mentioning but Australia isn't? Oh, but of course, it was all a secret. The Egyptians didn't want anybody to know about the secret location of their secret ochre mines in a secret land on the other side of the world. Also, more of an aside than anything else, that stick figure is just that - a stick figure. It does not correspond with any Egyptian hieroglyph, which includes an abundance of human figures. That very modern stick-figure is the smoking gun of a hoax. I'm disappointed that Tony dismissed this as a bit daft instead of thoroughly debunking it in a few seconds, as he so easily could have. Then again, maybe there's a cunning plan at play here and I should watch the rest of the doco.

Women were burned at the stake for petty treason, not ordinary crimes. It was pretty rare for a woman to charged with that instead of murder.

What is the actual point of the series? It's extremely bizarre to us, 2 white Australians, to see a TV series about 'down under' with indigenous people absent. Also... Where's Dirk Hartog?? 🤔

Anyone is welcome to come here and live as a hunter gatherer like the Aboriginals do did its a life choice still available to all,

Like Columbus, Britain didn't discover shit, Australia was already inhabited when they landed in the continent!

Australia has Best Flag.

It's not pronounced 'yongu' it's pronounced 'yong ool Spelt yonglu

That man was Baldrick...how in the hell he ended up here? 🤔😐

Tony, I've been a fan of yours ALL my life, my partner too, between us that's 104 years! However, I'm yet to see an indigenous person in this documentary!! We've seen 4 episodes so far and are heartbroken, not to mention confused, by your total lack of indigenous peoples in this series! The only person playing a didgeridoo was white, and the only rock art you showed are the crazy Gosford UFO carvings, which are a local joke. Can you explain the lack of coloured people in Alice Springs? Or anywhere else for that matter?? Really disappointed in the show thus far 😢

LOL the egyptians had ships 2000 years (( that is 2000 b.c ! )) before so called christ was born !! DONT BE FOOLED AND NIEVE HERE , the egyptians where cleverer back then than ANYONE else on this planet back then !!

They aren't the original inhabitants! they look more Indian.