|
|
||||||
|
|
Ancients in Australia |
|||||
|
|
||||||
| In the National Park
forest of the Hunter Valley, 100km north of Sydney, there is a most unusual
set of rock carvings. Discovered in the early 1900's the site was secretly
visited by people 'in the know' in the 1950's, and fell back into local
mythology for a couple of decades until accidentally rediscovered by a man
looking for his lost dog.
The carvings themselves are in a rock cleft accessible only by a small rock chute from above or below. A large block of split sandstone on a cliff-face creating a small chasm or "chamber" of two flat stone walls facing each other, that widens out from two to four meters and is covered by a huge flat rock as a "roof" at the narrow end. When entering the cleft you are immediately confronted by a number of worn carvings that are certainly not your average Aboriginal animal carvings. There are at least 250 hieroglyphs at this site, and at the end of the chamber, protected by the remaining section of stone roof, is a remarkable third-life size carving of a rather recognisable Egyptian figure .. |
||||||
|
|
||||||
![]() |
![]() |
|
"Anubis, the Judge of the Dead"
|
||
| So why was this amazing discovery mostly ignored during examination in the 1950's? Quite simply - the hieroglyphs are extremely ancient, in the archaic style of the early dynasties. The archaic style is very little known and untranslatable by most Egyptologists (who are trained to read Middle Egyptian onwards). The classic Egyptian dictionaries only handle Middle Egyptian, and there are few people in the world that can read and translate the early formative style. These early characters contain forms of glyphs that correlate with archaic Phoenician and Sumerian sources. With this in mind it is easy to see how early university researchers who examined them dismissed them as bizarre and ill-conceived forgeries. | ||
| Egyptologist Ray Johnson, who has translated extremely ancient texts for the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo, eventually identified the texts as Third Dynasty, and set about translating the two walls of glyphs. The story they tell is one of great tragedy. Ancient explorers were sent to explore Australia just after the reign of King Khufu (somewhere between 1779 and 2748 B.C.). They became shipwrecked in a strange and hostile land with no food or water. Setting out across the land they searched for a way to survive. It was during this time that their royal leader "Lord Djes-eb" was bitten twice by a snake. They prayed to Amon, the hidden one, for he was struck twice in ancient myth, but to no avail. So here they buried their exhaulted leader, before setting off again into the vast wilderness, and disappearing into the void of history … or did they? | ||
| In 1931 Professor A. P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology at Sydney University, came upon a tribe of Aborigines in the North West Kimberley's. They had never met a white man before, and the professor was astounded when tribal elders greeted him with Ancient secret Masonic hand signs. He was struck by the startling Semitic features present in the natives, and astounded when he found out that they worshipped the sun - not in itself unusual until you see how they represent it .. | ||
![]() |
||
| The symbol inscribed in this stone is identical to that of the Aten, the solar deity worshipped in Egypt. The sun was depicted as having little hands that reached out to touch mankind. | ||
| They told him stories of how the Wanjina had come from across the Indian Ocean in great vessels and taught them many great and mysterious things. More amazing still was the discovery Professor Elkin made much later - many of the unrecognisable words spoken by the tribe were in fact Egyptian in origin. | ||
| So if we are to accept that ancient Phoenician style Egyptian script and language is present on the continent of Australia, we must then accept that the mariners of antiquity were quite capable of extensive ocean voyages, and a whole new age of history is opened before us. | ||