ARCHAEOLOGY
ANSWERS
NEWS UPDATE
Issue 5
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Update.
Well, do you have
your wardrobe ready? I mean, you’re
going to bring your
snow skis and your tropical island
lightwear on this
trip! Oh yes, and don’t forget your
desert boots.
…Just kidding! Whatever
you’re wearing
at this moment will
do quite nicely. Because it’s another
armchair journey
we’re going on. Yes, that’s right. I’ve
found some fascinating
updates to the Dead Men’s
Secrets book for
you.
And that reminds
me. Do you have your copy? If not,
you’d better get
yourself one. It’s fast and easy to do.
Just click on http://www.beforeus.com
Well, today’s issue
includes:
- Ancient
Egyptians in Australia
- Boomerangs
world-wide
- Ancient
shoes
- Please
tell a friend
- Tell
us what you think
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1. ANCIENT EGYPTIANS IN AUSTRALIA
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“Evidence slowly
accumulates that the ancients, even 2,000
years ago, were
aware of the Fifth Continent – Australia.
“Sporadic but most
suggestive finds have been made from
Torres Strait down
the east coast to the border of Victoria.
Eight years ago,
during excavations for silo elevators at
Geraldton, Western
Australia, an Egyptian bronze plate
was found 20 feet
below today’s sea level.”
So reported the
Sydney Daily Telegraph on October 26,
1970.
Since the 1990s
our Dead Men’s Secrets office has been
receiving news reports
from all over Australia.
At Wollongong, New
South Wales, in an inlet now silted
up and covered by
mangroves and blackberries, 20 ruined
houses have been
found, with paved pathways leading to a
water catchment
inland and down to the remains of a stone
wharf about 50 feet
long.
North of Noosa,
about 100 miles north of Brisbane,
Queensland, there
are rock carvings possibly 2,800 years
old.
Others in New South
Wales are at Gosford, beside the
Hawkesbury River
near Wiseman’s Ferry, and at Penrith,
Springwood, Campbelltown
and Goulburn.
Artifacts have been
found at Ipswich and Rockhampton
(Queensland) and
at Towradgi, Wollongong and Taree
(New South Wales).
On the south coast
of New South Wales, under a sandhill,
a wooden wreck has
been examined which is 40 feet long
and 9 feet wide,
with timbers held together by wooden
plugs. A similar
relic has been found near Perth in Western
Australia.
Rex Gilroy, while
director of the Natural History Museum
at Mount Victoria,
New South Wales, wrote:
“It now seems possible
that the Egyptians were planning
the colonisation
of Australia.
“Evidence of this
can be seen in ruins near Newcastle and
Wollongong.”
At Newcastle, a
number of decayed ruins of dwellings
overlook a paved
area lining the waterfront and a badly
preserved stone
wharf. Pottery fragments, copper coins
and part of a bronze
sword were found there.
Sir Ralph Cilento,
as well as W.J. Perry in his Children
of the Sun, state the belief that mummification and its
ceremonies were
brought to Torres Strait by Egyptians in
the 21st
dynasty.
Sir Grafton Elliott
Smith, one-time Professor of
Anthropology, Manchester
University, began a
controversy early
last century when he claimed that
evidence of Egyptian
culture among the natives of New
Guinea dated back
at least 2,000 years, and that it was then
still apparent among
the peoples of the western Pacific.
In Queensland, a
local person claimed that he had found an
ancient Egyptian
scarab behind Ellis Beach, up on a hill
where there is a
fresh water spring. It was buried 2 feet
below the ground
adjacent to the spring. He claimed it was
4,000 years old.
On October 29, 1994,
the Queensland Times reported:
“Ray Johnson is
trying to decipher hieroglyphics that were
discovered last
year engraved in a wall at Gosford, New
South Wales.
“Mr Johnson said
the Gosford site was like a narrow pass
inscribed on both
sides with hieroglyphics and a tomb that
contained the remains
of a dead Egyptian.
“Mr Johnson said
he had written to Foreign Minister
Gareth Evans to
inform him of the find.”
One of our readers
living in Queensland wrote to Dead
Men’s Secrets:
“Several times in
my teens, in the 1930s, I visited Brisbane,
spending time in
the old Queensland Museum studying all
the old exhibits.
Two that particularly interested me were
bowls of Egyptian
coins that had been collected on the
Atherton Tableland
(North Queensland). The new museum
has everything in
archives instead of open display. I have
no doubt they are
still there.”
Another Queensland
reader has written us with the
following:
“My son-in-law,
a third generation local in the Home Hill
area (1350 kilometres
north of Brisbane) has told me that
locals climbed a
mountain which is on the coast north of
Airlie Beach to
look at a white obelisk that had been
reported on the
top. They found it to be engraved with
hieroglyphics which
they presumed to be Egyptian. As it
overlooks the Barrier
Reef and the coastal channel they
also assumed it
to be a navigational beacon. It has been
reported there is
another one on Cape Tribulation, north of
Cairns, but it is
now covered with rain forest.”
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2. BOOMERANGS WORLD-WIDE
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Most
of us know the boomerang as the instantly recognisable
symbol
of Australia – a bent stick that returns when thrown,
used by the Aborigines for several thousand years.
What
is not so commonly known is that evidence of both
returning
and non-returning boomerangs has been found on
all
continents.
As
boomerang throwers, the Aborigines were joined by the
HOPI
in ARIZONA, the INUIT of the ARCTIC CIRCLE,
and
the peoples of INDIA, ancient EGYPT, POLAND,
DENMARK,
HOLLAND, GERMANY, INDONESIA,
the
NEW HEBRIDES, and also PUNT in AFRICA.
Some
of the most interesting and least known boomerangs
are
those found in the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt. These
priceless
artefacts are made of ebony and ivory and some are
inlaid
with gold. Recent research shows that some were of the
returning
variety.
It
appears that the boomerang is now associated with Australia
because
the Aborigines are the last race to be seen using them.
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3. ANCIENT SHOES
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“If
you keep something long enough, it’s bound to come
back
into fashion. Forget the flares and glitter, we’re talking
millennia
here.
Scientists
have discovered a collection of caveperson
footwear
in a prehistoric settlement in the Rockies that
makes
Imelda Marcos’ wardrobe look like a load of old
cobblers.
We’re talking STRAPPY LEATHER SANDALS
WITH
ANKLE TIES and CASUAL SLIP-ONS dating back
thousands
of years. They also found HANDBAGS. Which
just
goes to show nothing really changes on the domestic
front,
does it?
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