The original caretakers of the Australian continent have been telling the same stories orally for 40,000 years.

Let that sink in!

It is extraordinary to me that they don't get as much clout as they deserve for maintaining human civilization for so long. They literally evolved cryptologically sound techniques for maintaining their history - through fires, floods, calamity and Mother Nature.

We can't even keep our stories straight in the modern era for longer than 8 months.