ANCIENT Egyptians visited AUSTRALIA thousands of years before Captain Cook arrived, a group of amateur archaeologists claim.
And the intrepid Middle Eastern explorers may have built a pyramid under a mountain near Cairns, in north Queensland.
‘Walsh’s Pyramid’, which is 922 metres tall, is the final resting place of Egyptian Royal Lord Nefer-ti-ru, according to Ray Johnson, a controversial amateur historian who died many years ago, and his followers.
He claimed carvings of Egyptian hieroglyphics discovered at Gosford, an hour north of Sydney, indicate that two pyramids were built in Australia.
One was reportedly constructed at Gympie, in central Queensland – and the other is Walsh’s Pyramid.
However, the carvings at Gosford have long been dismissed as fakes by academics since their discovery in the 1970s.
Professor Boyo Ockinga from Macquarie University’s Ancient History Department in Sydney, told ABC: “I’d be the first person who’d welcome some sort of link that because it would make my subject relevant to Australian history.
“It’d be wonderful…but I’m afraid it’s just not possible.”
He says the carvings are randomly placed, not at all like the structured way ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions are produced.
The carvings are also a mash-up of symbols from Egyptian eras thousands of years apart.
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He added: “There’s no way people would’ve been inscribing texts from the time of Cheops with the signs that weren’t invented until 2500 years later.”
Professor Ockinga says it’s likely the carvings were done in the 1920s, during the world-wide Egyptology craze sparked by the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun.
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