He was so excited by the appearance of the hieroglyphs he translated them himself. He was a self-professed amateur enthusiast who died in 2004. History Channel’s Ancient Aliens calls local historian Ray Johnson an Egyptologist. The glyphs, most likely a 1960s and 70s hoax, are etched into sandstone boulders in Brisbane Water National Park, near Sydney. How did they all overlook such an easily accessible, promising rock grotto? Not one of them mentioned Egyptian hieroglyphs. And anthropologists and treasure hunters seeking Aboriginal rock art had repeatedly scoured the area since the late 1800s, and especially during the 1920s Great Depression. It’s not as though the region hadn’t been explored many times previously. MORE: How we’d know if there had been a prehistoric civilisation But no verifiable mention of the hieroglyphs was made before the 1970s. ![]() ![]() ![]() The eroded grotto rock structure is within 100m of a road, and near an old housing subdivision. In the case of Gosford, the only thing apparently linking it with a civilisation 13,200km and 4500 years away are 250 remarkably childlike hieroglyphs gouged into a rock face. Surely there must have been an ancient source of knowledge - a ‘super race’ such as Atlantis, or prehistoric manipulations by aliens - to help these ignorant ape-descendants along their path to enlightenment? It looks good, so it must be true? A History Channel computer-graphic interpretation of an Aboriginal rock-painting.
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