Acknowledging the early Egyptian visits to Australia and our first people’s memory on the Central Coast of a tragedy that befell our visitors from Egypt to our land, and how it had an impact on the ancient Egyptians and Egyptian royal succession5000 years ago. 

This letter is in response to the paper by Dr. R.M. de Jonge Oct. 2014, on the subject of the Gosford glyphs, to encourage more research into the true history of the Central Coast

The paper is:- entitled Burial Site of LORD Nefer-ti-ru, son of King Khufu.: c. 2637BC-2614 BC fourth dynasty of Egypt (Gosford NSW, Australia)

Dear Dr. Jonge,

I would like to thank you for research on the Gosford Glyphs, which fills in some of the details of this particular visit, we believe the ancient Egyptians visited Australia’s Central Coast, which had a tragic ending and filled in some of stories inscribed on the rock walls that you  had presented as fact according to the reading of the Egyptian hieroglyphs found inscribed on several rock faces on the southern parts of the Central Coast of New South Wales near Gosford NSW.

I would like to build a case, for a set of circumstances that could have happened  for the validation of the account presented by you and the stories of the site being, one of the first contacts sites near the, proposed burial site for the visitor from the middle east in antiquity, and their unfortunate circumstances in New South Wales.

By using the local knowledge of the locations around the Brisbane Waters to understand how the stories translated from the sandstone wall could be a true account of the events 5000 years ago in Brisbane Waters.

I am a member of the Habitat Association, we are a small group of interested academics and researchers, who have an interest the mechanisms of settlement, and in particular on the Australian Central coast of New South Wales, we would like to find some solid scientific proof that the site was infact constructed by a group of ancient Egyptians and clarify the enigma of the site.

There is some contradictions as to the age of the site, the inscriptions suggest that the site is 5000 years old but , other histories related to the technology at hand 500 years ago might suggest that site is only 500 years old, some archaeological investigations, would help to answer this question, and many other questions about the site. 

The habitat Association, is a group of members, who are interested, in original thought, who, research as members of the group who are professional people, with backgrounds in town planning and ecology, who have an interest in human habitats, settlement and their, their interactions in the environment and their movements over time, have been focused over last 12 years of the organisation’s life has been on the environs of the New South Waled, Central coast and Newcastle areas north of the Australian Capital city of Sydney.

We think we might be able to use our knowledge of human movement patterns by using local knowledge as several of our members have lived in several locations around the possible passage of the visitors into the Brisbane Waters. One of our members has kayaked around Broken Bay to the site near “The Spike Milligan’s Bridge”, an realises the ease the Egyptians explorers would have found to get to this sheltered anchorage at park Bay, near Woy Woy, bearing in mind 5000 year ago the railway causeway and bridge, that was not constructed until 1930, and would not have been there nor would the row of houses along the beach, one of which conceals the trail from the beach to the glyph site, which, was the clue to story of the landing place, the trail may have been destroyed over the years by the housing development but remains on the google maps.

We feel that there is enough topographical evidence to the site, and enough, Egyptian history relating to Pharoah Khufu to consider the glyphs genuine.

There has been a lot of local talk about the glyph being a hoax, however, there has been no scientific proof presented that it is a hoax.

On the basis of the balance of probability with topographical evidence supporting the glyphs interpretation made in your paper and the habitat Associations conclusions, below, we feel on the balance of probability the site is genuine.

The habitat Association would like to see further scientific study of the site and appropriate archelogy being carried out, of the site to prove the site is an important site for the history our Land of Australia to give a more complete history of the indigenous peoples of the region of the Central Coast of new South Wales.

A recommendation for a Scientific study be made to find answers, should include the following research points, the following research would contribute to the validation of the site as genuine.

• The red ochre found on the possible burial site should be analysed to see if the ochre was locally acquired, the implication to locally acquired ochre is that it confirms the glyphs account, of cooperation between the local peoples and the text on the rocks indicates that there was co-operative trade on the Central Coast between the local peoples and the Egyptian visitors.
• The beach where, we have indicated that the visitor landed, would have been camp for a possible two trimesters, which is about eight months, indicated in the text of the glyphs, if this is so, bones and other artifacts could be found in the sands of and lower parts of the cliffs leading up to the site. From these fragments, the scientist can estimate dates if the deposits, by using carbon dating.
• On interpreting the burial customs of the Egyptians at the time to old kingdom of deductions can be made to the likely location of any Royal body at the site, due to unfortunate circumstances of a snake bite to one of the expedition leaders, who was recorded on the text of the glyphs as a prince of Egypt. , deduction can be made to the location of other bodies that may have needed a proper burial, from the accident at sea from the story on the glyphs that relate to the upturning of one of the boats and return to the south to Broken Bay, Where lives seen to have been lost.
• Identify whether the boomerangs found in Tutankhamun’s tomb, to be pronominally from the east or west coast of Australia, if they are found to come from the east Coast of New south Wales, this would add further data to the sites Genuineness.

This letter is in response to the paper by Dr. R.M. de Jonge Oct. 2014, about the Gosford glyphs and to encourage more research into the true history of the Central Coast

the paper is entitled Burial Site of LORD NEfer-ti-ru, son of King Khufu.: c. 2637BC-2614 BC fourth dynasty of Egypt (Gosford NSW, Australia)

Why is the Habitat Association interested in the enigma of the site?

The Habitat Association has been interested in the preservation of natural areas, and has been active preserving a wildlife corridor near the Tuggerah lakes, which is believed to be a meeting place in antiquity of aboriginal peoples from many region around the New South Wales, were the culture of storytelling would have been practiced in an environment around lagoons, and the lake, in atmosphere of trade and hunting and food gathering from the lake and surrounding bushlands, unfortunately the pristine meeting place was destroyed several years ago and housing estates, sit on much of the sites that has not been preserved, by a wildlife corridor at Wadalba, which sites on a hill that is prominent in the landscape, which would draw the aboriginal peoples in to the meeting place.

The habitat Association, its research as members, who are professional town planners and ecologists, who have an interest in human habitats and their movement over time.

LORD NEFER-TI-RU was the son of a fourth dynasty an Egyptian Pharoah Khufu, WHO may have travelled to Australia 5000 years ago, and died as the result of snake bit in the Australian bush or by the events of a storm in the coastal waters off Broken Bay near Gosford, The story written on the Gosford glyphs rockfaces indicate that he was buried by, his brother, and the ship’s crew in a remote location, in New South Wales near the city of Gosford. The Egyptian record of this son is that he had lost his live, prior to the death of his father and was not alive to take the throne of Khufu when he died, a younger brother took his place as explained below.

In this article we revaluate the story and attempt to flesh out the story in the context of the location of the site, the Brisbane Waters National Park in the mountains east of the Central Coast of New South Wales Australia.

We hope to flesh out the Research put forward by Dr. DeJonge and look at peripheral information about the location of the burial site and possibly build a case for the presence of the Egyptians in Australia in ancient times.

Over the last 50 years there has been considerable, conjecture about the validity of the story of the Glyphs, written on the sandstone in the Brisbane Waters National Park, just outside the Central Coast regional town of Kariong, a suburban area of Gosford.

Firstly, is it plausible that the ancient Egyptian peoples could have travelled to the Central Coast’s region of New South Wales in 3000BC? 

Pharoah KHUFU demonstrates the possible technology of boat construction with a boat reconstructed outside the great pyramid with a length of 46 metres. Therefore, it is conceivable that larger boats could have been built and been employed to make a journey to Australia along the coastlines of Arabia, India, Indonesia and New Guinea.

In Dr. Jonge’s paper, he notes that the Egyptian expedition leader noted the land just south of New Guinea as a new land at a point now called Cape York Australia.

It might be worth noting to get to Australia from Egypt, you would follow the coasts of Indian and Indonesia, predominantly, without crossing large portions of ocean, as the ships available from Egypt may not have been very capable of operating in heavy seas.

This is borne out by one of the stories on the Gosford glyphs, which tells of a group of one or more ships leaving Broken Bay near the probable Egyptian settlement near the regional town of Woy Woy.

The settlement was adjacent to the Spike Milligan’s Railway bridge, were 5000 years ago a small sandy beach would have enticed weary travels to land within the waters of Brisbane Waters know to the native peoples as Way Way meaning ‘deep waters’ inside an  estuary entered from Broken Bay a large expansion of water open to the Pacific ocean which was the mouth of the mighty Hawkesbury River, then by taking the northern arm as described by Captain Phillip, the first Governor of the Port Jackson colony, Sydney, who was from the fledgling settlement of the Europeans in Australia in 1788  as the north arm, entered into the Brisbane Waters, and past the half tide rocks meander of the channel and then negotiate the Rip, which is often an area of fast moving and choppy waters as you enter the deeper water in the estuary near Woy Woy, crossing from Woy Woy’s brick wharf constructed to off load bricks for the construction of a rail tunnel, constructed in the early twentieth century.

As the Egyptian fleet sailed past the wharf area it would have simply sailed north up the Brisbane Waters to the small beach in a small, sheltered bay opening out into the inner waters of the Brisbane Waters near the the locations of Woy Way and Waterfall Bay of today.

The beach is pivotal to the site of the burial of one of the Princes of Egypt in that there is a trail from the beach up the hill to Bambara Road which extends from the burial site to a main road , which continues to be the main Road from Kariong to Woy Woy.

It is assumed that the ancient peoples used this trail to access and work on the site, and many first peoples rock carving site along this road, used to give instructions,  to visitors, and other native peoples the availability of game to hunt in the area.

 

The enigma of the Glyphs presents conditions of settlement, that should not be dissimilar from other norms of settlement.

As we analyse the story of the Glyphs, we recognise that the Egyptians could have simply followed the coastline of the east coast of Australia with one addition, that we will investigate later in the paper,( the theory that the Central Queensland town of Gympie was another Egyptian settlement around the same time).

The question is, how did the small camp of the Egyptians in Brisbane Waters get extra food and fresh water., being on a salt water estuary, water was not readily available, and according to the Glyphs story, the landscape was dry and, insect would bite regularly .this is the story today if you were to camp there today , where would you find fresh water?, water was available in the Bay to the west of the camp, at the end of the bay called Waterfall Bay there is a stream flowing from the sandstone rock ground water, alternatively, if they were told by the native peopled you can dig into the sandy beach five or six metres and collect freshwater potable water even though you are in a salt sea environment, this is how many of the modern residents of Woy Woy get their water.

What food resources were around, for the small Egyptian settlement, there was a small peninsula where they landed called Koolewong, the local aboriginal name for koala.

To the modern day Australian, Koalas are  not thought as a food source and in fact koala is a protected species and rare in the area, but 5000 years ago they may have been plentiful in the local scribbly gums, grey gums and manna gums forests of Brisbane Waters, to a desperate settlement koala would have been on the menu, koala habitat is known to extent to the south and west of the site and throughout the Brisbane waters national park.

 The whole estuary was covered with promotively Sydney rock and a few Pacific oysters, which could have been harvested by the Egyptians, today the pelican population is artificially high, due the regular afternoon feeding of the birds by the fish co-op at Woy Woy ,at brick wharf Road as an tourist attraction, 5000 years ago, pelican could have been on the menu, not to mention  the fish stocks in the Brisbane Waters would have been plentiful for netting in those days.

Native people contact would have regulator and indications are that contact was friendly, according to the sum of the text of the Rock inscriptions at the site. 

When red Ochre was required to build the burial site, it would have been obtained from local native peoples, who would have obtained it from, Lake Munmorah area some 40 kilometre to the North, through a possible aboriginal trading network from the Lake Munmorah’s coastal cliffs, which were the closest location to get this commodity.

Local native carvings were close by, near the intersection of Barbara Road trail and the Woy Woy trail Aboriginal trail or Woy Woy Road today, from the site of these rock carvings the Egyptians would have been about to see a prominent mountain to the south shaped like a pyramid (mount Wandabyne), viewed from the west it loses its pyramid shape but is a steep sided flat top mountain.

It seems that the second son of Khufu’s son Lord nefer-Djesrb  was supervising the building of the burial site after the returning ships brought the bodies of those who lost their lives during the short open sea expedition of one or more ships attempted to start a journey to the north up the coast towards their homeland, bodies of dead seem to have been recovered and buried at the site near Kariong. The first-born son seemed to return alive, back from the devastating storm that capsized the unseaworthy, boat or boats off the coast of the new South Wales coast.

In walking back and forth up the bush track it is easy to understand how you might meet a deadly red belly back snake, no Australian native, nor would any Australian today walk in the bush bare foot in the summer without first checking where he stepped and would wear shoes.

Snakes and bush flies are two of the hazards of the Australian bush along with mosquitos, these hazards are described in the text of the Gosford glyphs, which helps it to become a credible account of the story of long ago.

The Egyptian explorers may have not strictly followed the eastern coastline of Australia as they travelled to their possible base in the Brisbane waters of New south Wales, this is because when we consider the story from the Glyphs about the rough weather encounter on  one of the returning expeditions from Broken Bay , which founded in the seas off the coast of new south Wales with horrific loss of life including, possibly, one of the sons of KHUFU, wE have to recognize that these boats were not deep drafted vessels that could handle heavy seas.

When we consider the method of travel from Egypt, it is possible that they sailed close to the coast deliberately, and hugged the coast all the way from Egypt with some short trips across open water for a day or two.

This is why they were nervous about going to far out to sea, as they travelled down the east coast they would have encountered a land obstacle that would have required them to go out to sea .as they followed the coast they would have been choraled down the west side of Fraser Island, (K’gari) and into Tin Can Bay ,then they would have landed in Tin Can Bay, travelled over land towards the regional town of today called Gympie. There they would have seen a pyramid shaped mountain, and perhaps seen this as as a sign to set up a settlement as on the Brisbane waters.

It wouldn’t have been long before they realised that the place was rich in the mineral gold. And started to mine the precious metal. 

In those days their Gods expected the people to mine gold and offer as much as possible to the Gods, so there would have been a tremendous incentive to mine that which was easily, to be obtained at that locality, this would have meant that a small settlement would grow up , however in Brisbane waters there is no gold to be mined in the wholly sandstone geology of the Central Coast of New South Wales.

It is recorded in other Egyptian stories that the gold found in tomb of Tutankhamen was from the Antipodes( an ancient reference to Australia from those times, along with the boomerangs found in the tomb, the antipodes was the ancient Egyptian name for a country on the other side of the globe, which in effect was the country later to be named Australia. 

Trade would have happened between the native people at both sites, were artifacts such as the Australian aboriginal, boomerangs, would have been traded, or possibly from other earlier Expedition, Djoser a third dynasty pharaoh is reported to have explored the west coast of Australia during times when the first Pyramid was being constructed, the step pyramid of DOSER, and this why we found such artifacts as these in the tombs for the pharaohs of Egypt, in particular, Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, tends to prove, contact with these peoples, who had this unique technology of a returning stick for hunting for birds along the Nile in the time between nefer-tu-ti-ru and Tutankhamen. The Egyptian simply call the this stick (the Boomerang) a foreigner’s hunting stick in their language, which tells the readers, that they had little recollection of where it came from, or perhaps how to use it. Most children in Australia in the 1960s have had the opportunity to learn how to throw the boomerang and have it return to the thrower to catch.

Legend has it that Tutankhamun was the reincarnation of Lord nefer-tu-ti-ru 1300 years later because of his life being cut short by the snake in the Australian Bush, it is also thought that logic suggests that in legend that the body was being transported back to Egypt when the storm capsized the boat and his brother lost his life then and the sailors limped the boat back to Brisbane Waters, buried the younger brother on the hill at Kariong, the story on the glyphs tell of the Lord getting bitten by a snake, and died, which required the younger brother  to escort the body back his father Khufu, but soon after leaving Broken Bay they encounter a furious storm where many of the crew lost their lives, this leaves the story a bit confusing, however, if we consider that the heir to the throne, and son of Khufu was the one who was bitten by the snake while building the burial place for the those who lost their live in the storm we get a clearer picture of what may have actually happened.

It is recorded in the history Egypt that the son of Khufu dies early and is not there to ensure a smooth transition to Kufu’s successor, and he is replaced by Djedefra, who himself is usurped by an older son by a lesser wife of Khufu, this gives some credents’ to the story of a snake bite to the one of the expedition leaders, muddies the water as to whether, the  second son with him survived the ordeal in Australia and later challenged the older brother Djedefre., if this is case then the tomb near Kariong is probably empty , except for the bodies of several sailors who perished during the return journey to Egypt, but that, said, it is difficult to contemplate that so much trouble and time be used by these ancient travellers, if no royal body was in the red ochre areas of the rock glyphs monument at Kariong, it is conceivable the royal section of the burial place holds the mummy of the second son who himself was a royal person. 

We find hoax stories are plentiful around this story of the Gosford Glyphs and find that no authors of hoax stories offer any scientific basis for their theory that the site is a hoax. the argument that the site is a hoax provides no credible proof that the site is a hoax, but I do after studying the topography of the region around the site see and the background history from Egyptian source, it is easy to mount an argument for the validity of the site as a genuine site in the history of the Egyptian culture.

The Gold story from Gympie is only a theory and there is no substantial evidence yet, scientific evidence needs to be sought to prove that gold from Gympie  was mined, however, if as Egyptian legend has it, it  is correct, that the gold came from antipodes, and no accessible regions of Australia had gold that could be mined except Gympie, certainly not the Brisbane Waters area, or Sydney region, as miners would have to go to Victoria or over mountains west to Bathurst area to get gold, which was not easily accessed by the visitors on the east coast of Australia, So if the legend of Tutankhamun’s tomb is correct, where in the Antipodes did they mine the gold?

Events leading up to Pharoah Khufu not having an heir on his death.

Two of pharaoh Khufu’s sons see the leaps forward with the technology of the boatbuilding, over the reign of their father over the period leading up to their manhood and contemplate the world as they knew it from their childhood, and realised that the a parallel civilisation of the Egyptians, the Phoenicians now developed technology to travel on the sea and travel far further than the Nile and the rivers of  of Egypt.

knowing that the kingdom of the pharoah’s and their father had developed a craft that could sail comfortably on the Nile and the inner seas close to Egypt, the young men decided to put a several crews together, and include in the  expeditions the expertise of the Phoenicians by hiring Phoenicians sailors to explore some of these further seas sea, known to the Egyptians as the antipodes, they  provisioned, several vessels and started to following the coasts  of Yemen, India, Indonesia and New Guinea of the sea towards the antipodes, to the east and to the east until they rounded a spit of land that today we know as Cape York Australia.

by

David Holland

Chair Habitat Association,

Master of (Environmental Management (Natural Resources)

Bachelor of Applied Science. (Environmental Planning)

With Collaboration from Dr. Raymond C. Rauscher

Reference:

Article by DR. R. m. de jonge (Oct 2014)

see below for link to download article.

https://www.academia.edu/17251306/GOSFORD_GLYPHS_OF_AUSTRALIA