• Wreckages of large mahogany ships in south-west Australia. Europeans didn’t build mahogany ships.
  • Copies of old maps . Nicola de Conti, a merchant is said to have travelled with the fleet and got a copy of the map. The details on these maps include descriptions of the native people in these lands — black-red skin and feathers around the head and waists of Native Americans. Australians, on the other hand, are black skinned, naked and wearing bone articles around their waists.
  • Star charts , adjusted for changes in 600 years.
  • Chinese and European historical records dating back to 1418.
  • Carved stones erected along the way. 7 stones with text in Tamil, Farsi, Arabic, Chinese and medieval Malayalam (language of Calicut, a key stop in the journey) have been found.
  • Lifestyle markers , such as the first European explorers’ discovery of Asiatic hens in Patagonia. These birds cannot fly and are unique to south-east Asia. At the same time, maize, unique to the Americas was found in China. Maize can only be propagated by man.
  • Legends such as the Aboriginal one that talks of ‘yellow’ people settling amongst them.