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The oldest human fossil remains found in Australia date to around 40,000 years ago – 20,000 years after the earliest archaeological evidence of human occupation. Nothing is known about the physical appearance of the first humans that entered the continent over 60,000 years ago.
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Mungo Lady and Mungo Man lived in the region now known as the Willandra Lakes, western New South Wales, around 42,000 years ago during the late Pleistocene era.
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Cuneiform is an ancient writing system that was first used in around 3400 BC. Distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, cuneiform script is the oldest form of writing in the world, first appearing even earlier than Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3400 and 3100 BCE was discovered 19 September 1991 on the Ötztal Alps between the border of Austria and Italy.
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It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. Egyptologists conclude that the pyramid was built as a tomb for the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu and estimate that it was built in the 26th century BC during a period of around 27 years.
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Narrabeen Man is the name given to a 4,000-year-old skeleton of a tall Aboriginal Australian man found during road works in Narrabeen, a suburb of the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, in January 2005