I'm very sorry if I came off a bit harshly, but we do try to protect the archaeological record in this country where possible. We work hard to provide accurate (as scientifically possible) data to both the academic and general communities and it is difficult to even debate such claims when I know there is no worthwhile data to support them. As an archaeologist I do not want these hypotheses to become widely accepted until such data becomes apparent. There is certainly no professional museum in Australia exhibiting Phoenician or Egyptian artefacts that were excavated in the course of archaeological fieldwork in this country.
