Mysterious Australia Newsletter - July 2011

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Vol 1. Issue No 7

JULY2011

INSIDE:

MORE EVIDENCE OF TIME-WINDOW DINOSAURS IN KANANGRA BOYDWILDERNESS.

THE SEARCH FORAUSTRALIAN PYRAMIDS .[THE MYSTERIOUS GYMPIE PYRAMID]

Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.


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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. The Club meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at

the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 1pm onwards.

We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Streetwhere there is safer parking.

MORE EVIDENCE OFTIME-WINDOW DINOSAURSIN KANANGRABOYDWILDERNESS.

By Rex GilroyCopyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Kanangra Boyd National Park vast wilderness which covers this vast plateau, has lately revealedevidence that the region possesses Time-Window anomalies, in which apparent living dinosaurs, chiefly ofthe Theropod [bipedal] kind, have been reported seen by people. These incidents apparently go back manyyears.

In the June edition of Mysterious Australia newsletter I reported the discovery of 31cm long by31cm wide Theropod tracks a few days old, found on an isolated fire trail on Tuesday 7 th June 2011. Now I

can report yet another new discovery of Theropod tracks barely two days old at another location on the samefire trail in the vicinity of the first finds.Our latest adventure began when Heather and I drove out Kanangra Boyd Plateau and parked

at the entrance of the fire trail in question. Due to Heathers knee problem she stayed with the car while Istrode off with casting plaster and two large water bottles in my backpack and a plastic bucket for mixing, ona hunch there might be more tracks somewhere on the fire trail that for once I might be able to cast besidestaking photos like the last time.

I walked along that trail into really dense gum scrub for about 2km and was nearing the location ofthe previous finds when, on the roadside amid disturbed bracken and leaves, I saw a large three-toedimpression in the soil and then a second less-defined specimen nearby. The tracks I found to be 1.65 metresapart on a west to east axis.

The tracks both measured the same, 40cm long from mid-toe tip to rear of heel by 45cm wide acrossthe outer toes by 11cm deep.I set to work sketching, measuring and photographing the tracks, and decided the west track to be the

best one for casting. As it turned out I barely had enough water for the job and it took one whole bag ofplaster to do. Had there been any pools of water from recent rain storms nearby I could have done the otherone, but then the weight of the cast I was able to do was bad enough carrying back to the car and uphill forpart of the way together with my backpack and having to hold onto the bucket as well! As I type this articlemy back, legs and other parts of my body are still aching from that walk!

*****I had to wait for the cast to dry sufficiently to lift, so did some searching of scrub across the road. Just

in from the roadside south-west of the cast and not noticed when I had been walking towards where I had

just found the tracks, I found an extensive and wide area of disturbed bracken and leaves. Here upon closerinspection I found a number of unmistakable but indistinct Theropod tracks, including one which was moredistinct. I photographed this track before returning to the cast which, after a few minutes was dry enough tolift. I had to get out of that place quick as the day was getting late. I left that eerie place at 3.30pm for the

Rex and Hea the r Gi l r o y , Aus t r a l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la in ed Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r ch t e am .

Pho t o c o p y r i g h t R ex Gi l r o y 2004 .


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long, arduous trek back to the car. All the time I had been there I could not shake off the feeling that I wasbeing watched by something.

Exhausted upon reaching Heather I showed her the cast. After a cup of coffee and snacks at the BoydRiver Crossing campground shelter shed we drove out as darkness approached.

Getting that cast out of that wilderness was certainly exhausting and I am not getting any younger at67. If anyone reading this article feels they are brave enough to look for living dinosaur [tracks] or can assistme on any other of my [and Heathers] exciting researches we would like to hear from them.

The latest Theropod tracks were just two days old. They give the impression of a creature that justappeared out of a Time-Window, scavenged around the bush on one side of the road, then crossed ontothe other side to leave the two principal tracks, before re-entering its own past time.

There is no doubt some people will reject the Time-Window theory for living dinosaur appearances.This is to be expected, yet it may not be at all too far-fetched as some would think. Windows in Time wastheorised by Albert Einstein. There are vast jungle regions in New Guinea, Malaysia and the Congo whereliving dinosaurs are reputed to survive today, and these regions could probably support such creatures. Yethere in Australia it would not be possible for a population of any given species [ie the TyrannosauridBurrunjor of Aboriginal tradition] to roam widely and in numbers without them being seen.

True, there are wilderness regions, but what is to stop any dinosaur species from moving out ontosettled areas and causing mayhem!

The Time-Window theory remains the best proposition, in which species find their way through awindow allowing them to leave their [ie Cretaceous period] world to enter our present time dimension forminutes, hours, even days etc until then find their way back into their own time. This scenario explains thesudden appearances of some species [as described by eyewitnesses] but which have soon afterwards just

vanished, literally into thin air.The proposition of living dinosaurs is a fascinating one for Cryptozoologists. The latest finds of fresh

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The dense gum scrub forestland of Kanangra Boyd NationalPark. Anything could exist unknown and unseen in this

wilderness including Theropod dinosaurs!Photo copyright t Rex Gilroy 2011.

The section of fire trail where three-toedTheropod tracks have already been seen

during Rex Gilroys previous visit and nowthe scene of his latest discovery.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The two Theropod tracks on a west to east axis. The west[bottom] impression was the best for casting. The north

track is top right of photo.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The west Theropod track before casting. Both tracks were 45cm long frommid toe tip to rear of heel, by 45cm wide across the outer toes and 20cm wide

across the heel by 11cm deep. The tracks were spaced 1.65 metres apart.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The east track.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rexs backpack and bucket with the cast drying beside thefire trail. Directly across the trail beyond the backpack, hediscovered an extensive area of disturbed ground where among

indistinct tracks one Theropod impression was visible.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The cast track. Note 40cm long ruler on left. Rex had to

carry his prise over 2km back to Heather waiting in the carat the fire trail entrance.



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THE SEARCH FORAUSTRALIAN PYRAMIDS.By Rex Gilroy

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.This article is presented as an introduction to that which follows it, being Chapter Eleven of the

Gilroys ground-breaking book Pyramids of Destiny Lost Pacific Colonies of the Bronze-Age God-Kings[URU Publications 2009]. Pyramids of Destiny like its predecessor, Pyramids in the Pacific TheUnwritten History of Australia [URU Publications 2000] has shown Australians the vast wealth of historicalevidence that lies scattered across this land, which regardless of academic opposition, demonstrates that thiscontinent has a pre-Aboriginal Stone-Age past, as well as a pre-Captain Cook/Dutch history of discovery,

exploration and settlement extending back thousands of years.Pyramids in the Pacific was the Gilroys first venture into private publishing and it remains a best-

seller beside Pyramids of Destiny to this day. Both books demonstrate the need of Australians to learnwhat is otherwise being suppressed by the authorities in the name of Political correctness for we dare to

The extensive/lengthy area of ground apparentlydisturbed by a Theropod dinosaur that had emergedfrom a Time-Window to spend time in our presentworld. There was one track quite visible, seen here

towards the bottom left of photo.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The track amid the disturbed leaf and bracken litter, of a creature that shouldhave become extinct 65 million years ago! Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The vast Kanangra Boyd Plateauwilderness. Home to living Theropod

dinosaurs that periodically enter our worldthrough Windows in Time.



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reveal historical relics that the James Cook-worshipping academia would prefer the general public knewnothing about!

As the Gilroys prepare a new book on the Gympie Pyramid and these of other culturesaround Australia and New Zealand, I look back on forty-five years of field research in the course of which Ihave gathered well over 1,000 stone inscriptions, idols and other images from across Australia, of civilisationslong turned to dust. Over 350 relics alone were uncovered by Heather and I from the Gympie Pyramidbefore it was irreparably vandalised by treasure-seekers.

Pyramids of Destiny shows that, while although the mention of the pyramid immediately evokesthoughts in peoples minds of the Egyptian pyramids, it must be borne in mind that the Pyramid form wasknown to other worldwide scattered cultures of the past and certainly pre-dates the Egyptian structures; inthe case of the mother civilisation of Uru by untold thousands of years. The interested reader can learn thetrue evolution of the Pyramid form in our book Pyramids of Destiny.

My own association with the Gympie Pyramid began in 1970 when the late Dal K. Berry of Gympiesent me a photo of what I immediately saw was the crude weathered image of the ancient Egyptian deity,

Thoth, God of Wisdom and Knowledge and Inventor of the Arts of Writing, and at least 3,000 years old. Iwas unable to visit Gympie until 1975, by which time I had met and married Heather, and we were finallyable to drive there. Mrs Meg Berry told us of a strange [stone] terraced hill covered by gum scrub across the

way from the Berry farm where we stayed for two weeks. Upon visiting the structure Heather and I realisedthat it was a stepped pyramid of a kind built in Egypt 5,000 years ago. Media madness soon followed and inits wake every effort by Brisbane-based university experts was made to ridicule and dismiss the structure as arelic of pre-Cook Australian colonisation. These experts for some reason would not examine relics from thesite and forced the media to place a black ban on further reporting of the discovery! One wonders what it

was that they feared from the discovery of this relic and why, under much secrecy, some 200 or so universityarchaeologists scoured the structure with metal detectors!

The whole story is too well known now to bother repeating in full, but the now ruined pyramid whichwill probably vanish beneath an expressway, still stands as a monument to human treasure-hunting greed andvandalism!

*****I have said that there are pyramids throughout Australia and New Zealand. The earliest are

deliberately modified hills, often flattened at the summit. These were astronomical pyramids of the Urucivilisation, further identified by rock inscriptions left by Uruan astronomers 20,000 and more years ago [thiscivilisation arose in Australia by over 150,000 years ago] and sometimes they are associated with nearbymegalithic stone circles, standing stones and extensive stone alignments and ley lines.

The Gilroys have over 30 years uncovered other hill pyramids created by Phoenicians and also Celts.In New Zealand we have uncovered hills shaped into stepped pyramids by ancient Celtic colonists as haveother archaeologists resident there.

There is growing evidence of more than one Amerindian culture having at various times reachedthese shores by navigating their huge sailed rafts on cross-Pacific ocean currents. Here the Gilroys have oncemore led the way with our discoveries - ie the Cooktown district Mayan colony and another at Atherton.Hereabouts we discovered a 50 metre tall ceremonial stone pyramid, turned to rubble by ages of tree and vinegrowth, and a 120 metre four-sided modified hill-pyramid whose flat, walled summit was used as anastronomical observatory temple.

Since the publication of Pyramids of Destiny which covers these discoveries, the Gilroys haveuncovered another Mayan astronomical/ceremonial pyramid temple in dense Blue Mountains scrubland, inthe vicinity of which are other crumbling stoneworks bearing faded inscriptions.

We have no intention of ever revealing the exact location of this 2,000 or so year old structure, or anyother pyramids and temples etc for that matter, as we dont want any more Gympie Pyramid styledestructions. These treasures of Australias lost and forgotten history are far too important to fall into the

wrong hands at this point in time. Australians need first to become better educated as to the real importanceof such relics other than as something to slap a dollar sign upon!

*****In recent months Heather and I have uncovered a Chimu [pre-Inca] colony at a New South Wales far

south coast location. Some carved stones and a pottery head of the Chimu Moon-God are all we have to goon, apart form a mysterious stone wall located in jungle, but I suspect more significant evidence of their long-term occupation has yet to be forthcoming, hopefully in a the form of a pyramidal structure. Time will tell.


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We have now begun a concentrated search for Australias lost pyramids, particularly here on the BlueMountains where the Uru had established a pyramid-building culture by over 50,000 years ago. Yet at 67 I amat the stage where help would be appreciated, and so the Gilroys are hoping to establish a new team of youngmen and women, aged 20 to 30 who can be relied upon to assist us in the discovery and measuring etc ofpyramids and other structures. This task would require trekking into mountain scrub so is only for the youngand energetic. The rewards will be the thrill of uncovering hitherto unknown relics of bygone civilisation andtaking part in adding to the knowledge of our hidden history. Those interested can apply via our phone

number 02 4782 3441.As this article is being written another search in the Gympie district is being planned. Rival treasurehunters with no real knowledge of how or where to focus their searches have for years torn at the crumblingstones of the Gympie Pyramid without success, whereas Heather and I have conducted our searches farbeyond the city, where modern development has not yet destroyed traces of ancient settlement, and thus wehave been fortunate to uncover a great many stone inscriptions, the translations of which helped us to writethe chapter on the Gympie Pyramid from Pyramids of Destiny that you are about to read.

Many ancient races, including the pre-Aboriginal Uru, were responsible for the colonisation ofAustralia. Today they would be all but forgotten were it not for the dedicated field work of Heather and RexGilroy, who have uncovered the often rubble remains of temples and fading rock inscriptions lost in junglesand weathered, crumbling pyramids standing wind-blown across this ancient land.

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The Blue Mountains Mayan pyramid, [northface]. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The pyramid, east face.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The pyramid, east face, with an occasional creek having cutaway soil close to the structures base.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The south end of the east side of the causeway.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

West side of the causeway. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The east wall of the causeway partly obscured by grasses.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The west wall of the causeway. Note carving of aTree of Life [bottom of picture] and an obscure

symbol [top of picture].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The south wall of a summit temple.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The summit temple, now a collapsed rubble heap.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The north-east corner of the temple ruins.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. The south-east corner of the ruined temple.


A massive stone from the temples east wall.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Another large boulder, part of the south-east wallruins. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The north-east alignment of massive stones as seen from thepyramids north-east base. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The small pyramidal formation at the west base of the causeway.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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Inscription found at the south-east corner of the ruined temple Translation: Bird-Jaguar observes the Sun-Gods course across

the sky. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. The altar stone near the Bird-Jaguar inscription. Note the snakeimage and bowl run-off [? for human blood].


Long view of the proximity of the two stones.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The door symbol close-up.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The two door inscriptions. That on the leftbeing the symbols for door , the right

carving is of a deity face [eyes and nose].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The deity face close-up. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

An inscription from the east base of the pyramid.Translation: Burning Snake the priest performs

sacrifices. On the second moon [ie every twomonths] all drink tears of blood from the body.

Drink blood from the bowl of the priest.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This stone from the east base of the pyramid bears an image of theMayan Jaguar God BaIam. The inscription states: Here at the

Temple of Kukulkan Bird-Jaguar your ruler speaks. All giveear. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This pyramid east base inscription showsthe large head of Kukulkan, the

feathered Snake. It reads: The Land ofKukulkan fertilised by the tears of the

Sun-God Ah-hu.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A head of Kukulkan carved on a rock at the pyramideast base. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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Embedded into the centre of the pyramid east side thisinscription reads: The upright God, Ah-hu,

Guardian of the Tree of Life, watched over by his Eye.Sacrifice to him at the Temple.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

These large bird and snake images are carved on a stone of thewest side of the pyramid causeway.


This snake with curved breath symbol is carved on arock to the left of the larger bird and snake images.


A sketch of the pyramid structure.Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy

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THE MYSTERIOUS GYMPIE PYRAMID.(This article is Chapter Eleven of Pyramids of Destiny Lost Pacific Colonies of the Bronze-Age God-Kings. [URU Publications

2009].)

Twice joyful are the Gods, thou has established their offerings,Twice joyful are the princes, thou hast formed their boundaries.

Twice joyful are thy ancestors before thee, thou hast increased their portions.

Twice joyful is Egypt as thy strong arm, thou hast guarded the ancient order.Twice great are the owners of his city, for he is a multitude and an host.

Portion of hymn to Sesostris the 3 rd,12th dynasty, around 2000 BC.

It seems strange that, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, conservative scholars in Australiacannot bring themselves to accept that maritime peoples of the ancient world were familiar with our shoresnot hundreds, but thousands of years before the age of Magellan.

They feel embarrassed every time some impossible pyramid, Old World rock inscription or otherrelic is found in Australia to refute their outdated arguments.

Their embarrassment must be growing, not only from the vast amount of relics described in thisbook, but also from all the other evidence coming to light worldwide, through the activities of dedicatedcultural diffusionists like the Gilroys!

For a great many years there has been a steady flow of books by American writers on the pre-Columbian discovery of the Americas. While many of these books have been written by experts in their field,describing voyages from the Old World cultures to the Americas via the Atlantic Ocean, with very fewexceptions, when describing the India-Pacific Ocean route, [in which they reveal a mass of relics, ruins androck inscriptions found from India through island South-East Asia to New Guinea and island Melanesia, andon through the Pacific Islands to the Americas], Australia is overlooked entirely, or sometimes explained ashaving been too barren to attract ancient maritime cultures. New Zealand also goes ignored. This book showshow wrong they are

The fact is, there is enough evidence of ancient civilisation contacts with Australia and its islandneighbours to rival, even surpass the pre-Columbian discovery and colonisation of the Americas [which ofcourse includes the Uru migrations there from Australia/New Zealand!].

*****For many years before I met my wife Heather [1972] I had struggled on alone, writing newspaper

articles, and sometimes doing radio interviews about Australias hidden history, trying to make Australiansaware of their unknown past, of Stone-Age races which had preceded our Aborigines to this continent beforethe Dutch mariners or Lieutenant James Cook RN.

My lone field searches for ancient rock inscriptions were mostly unsuccessful to begin with and whenI did begin discovering these, my efforts when published, were met with derision from university historiansand archaeologists who did not even think it necessary to give me the decency of an unbiased examination of

my finds. Yet, as I was to find in the writings of the ancients, there were many references to a great landmasslocated in the southernmost region of the world, often described as the Lost Paradise of mankind and aland of vast natural wealth. There was also plenty of evidence from ancient Chinese writings and mapsshowing their mariners knew our shores well over 2,500 years ago. Similar evidence existed from ancient

Arab contacts, and maps and writings of Portuguese and Spaniards of the 15th and 16th centuries respectivelyshowed just how late James Cook was in discovering our shores!

I eventually gave up trying to convince the narrow-minded university historical/archaeological clique,to concentrate upon taking my message to the average Australian to allow them to make up their own mindsabout our unknown history.

Even here I found obstacles, from biased academics who would phone radio stations and newspaperoffices, persuading gullible journalists not to interview or publish my findings, often impressing them with a

list of their degrees, and exposing my amateur status.In those early days of my struggle the growing amount of finds being made by people around

Australia, particularly of ancient Egyptian, Phoenician, Libyan, Celtic and other Bronze-Age period relics androck inscriptions, convinced me that these peoples were more than mere casual visitors to Australia, and thatthe search for minerals, precious stones and other important commodities had to have been their purpose in


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coming here. The emphasis in my researches thus turned from investigating scattered rock inscriptions andodd relics to the uncovering of colonies, which I rightly believed would have been established in mineral-richregions.

*****In 1972 I met my wife Heather and we soon became a team intent upon searching for and

uncovering evidence of colonisation of this land, by the peoples of the ancient worldOur first big breakthrough came in 1975. Earlier in 1970, I had been sent a photograph of a strange

ironstone image, by Mr Dal K. Berry of Gympie, in southeast Queensland. Mr Berry, a farmer, had beenploughing his field one day in 1966, when he unearthed the fragmented remains of what he realised to be anidol. After cementing it together he found it to be in the form of a 72cm tall by 120cm diameter squattingape. He also found that he had torn up sandstone blocks which had formed a base upon which the idol hadstood. Dal Berry soon afterwards stored the relic away in his shed. However, after reading an article by me onancient civilisation contacts with Queensland, he sent me a photograph of the relic in 1970.

It was not until October 1975 that, together with Heather, I was able to make the trip to Gympie.Upon inspecting the relic I realised it to be a crude depiction of Thoth, the God of Writing and Knowledgeof ancient Egypt in Ape form. Carved between the squatting legs of the image was the hieroglyph of thepapyrus flower Thoths symbol as the God of Writing while on the back were several weatheredhieroglyphs of what we now know today to be a mixed Egypto-Phoenician script. Thoth, I knew, had been

depicted as an ape prior to around 1000 BC, when he became an Ibis-headed, human-bodied deity whorecorded the judgement of the dead in Amenti, the afterworld.

Gympie was first officially settled in the 1840s and 50s, during which time farmers began turning upsome remarkable finds; mystery rock inscriptions, ancient tools of copper and bronze, as well as pottery ofancient Middle-East origin. It was enough for many of the inhabitants to suggest that British colonists werenot the first people to settle this district.

Gympie came to prominence in 1867, when James Nash scooped up some gold nuggets from a drycreek bed, quickly turning the district into Queenslands most famous goldfield.

By 1909 fifty-one companies were mining gold around the area. The region is also rich in copper andtin, as well as jasper, agate and other gemstones.

Prospectors, exploring the nearby forest-covered mountains and gullies made some startling

discoveries in the years following James Nashs gold strike. Remains of ancient open-cut gold and coppermining operations were uncovered outside Gympie and also in the Murgon district further west. Large basaltadzes were found beside quartz reefs where they had been used to pound away at the gold-bearing quartz. Atthese sites were sometimes found various implements of copper and bronze, later identified as being ofancient Middle-East origin. Somewhere in these jungle-covered hills a pre-European water-race built ofmassive stone blocks was discovered, but the location is now lost.

The number of relics, rock inscriptions and traces of extensive gold, copper and tin mininghereabouts, as well as open-cut agate mining operations we discovered between Gympie and Murgon, andnumerous ancient stoneworks that we began turning up in the region, convinced Heather and I that thedistrict had once been the site of a Bronze-Age Middle-East mining colony.

Gympie lies approximately 55km inland from the coast. Brisbane University geologists demonstrate

that, until geological land rises occurred along the coast about 2,000 years ago, a great harbour extended deepinland from Tin Can Bay to the Gympie/Murgon districts, creating a collection of islands in the Gympie area.Upon one of these stood the Thoth idol, probably the centrepiece of a stone shrine, as the sandstone blocksploughed up at the site by Dal K Berry suggested. This harbour would have been deep enough to allowancient wooden vessels and their crews to sail far inland, to be loaded with the locally-smelted ores at

waterfront wharves for shipment home to the Red Sea ports.Southwest of the city, Heather and I were shown a sandstone-ironstone hill by local bushman John

Dean, which had been quarried for massive stone blocks centuries before European settlement. A 9m widecauseway had been cut out of the solid rock hillside, leading from the base of the hill up towards the summit,

where a 30m wide by 60m long flat area lay, upon which stood a semicircle of massive stone blocks that hadonce been made ready for dragging down the causeway onto a long-vanished stone wharf, for loading onto a

huge vessel. Where they were bound remains a mystery, and where deep harbour water once washed theshores, farms now stand

A large stone slab standing to one side of the base of the causeway bears the profile of a human headcovered by a Phoenician Phrygian cap. It is an undoubted image of the Phoenician Sun-God Baal.

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For generations locals had puzzled over a forest-covered four-sided, stone terraced hill, directly acrossthe now dried up harbour from the site of the Thoth idol discovery. At the western base of this terraced hillstood the remains of an apparent wharf constructed of stone blocks.

On the afternoon of Monday 27th October 1975, Heather and I climbed this hill and it did not takeus long to realise the structure was a crudely-built step pyramid, reminiscent of those built in Egypt during the3rd Dynasty period, before the step formation was superseded by the true pyramid design.

With the assistance of John Dean we measured the structure the next day. Allowing for damage

caused by cattle and centuries of large trees growing up through the stonework, we estimated that each of thefour sides were 115m in length at the base, with each terrace being about 1.2m in height, by up to 2.4m widefrom the base terrace up, narrowing towards the top, where the last terraces [or steps] were a mere 60cm

width. The top four terraces were constructed with huge ironstone slabs weighing from 2-4 tonnes, whereasthose forming the other 14 terraces were much smaller, down to a size where they could be picked up by oneor both hands. The flat summit was formed of a massive 8 tonne slab. The overall height of the structure was60 metres.

The Gympie Pyramid [as I named it] faced the four points of the compass. For an Egyptianpyramid it was unique, the summit having been employed for ceremonial functions. Partly buried in rubbleon the summits eastern side we found a broken libation bowl formed from a large ironstone slab; and a largesandstone block, an altar stone, lay half buried nearby [the bowl would later be removed and the altar

smashed beyond recognition by a religious fanatic].Near the bowl there was also a rock inscription in Egypto-Phoenician script [also later destroyed]

stating: The body of the Son of Ra, to be provided with offerings for eternity.In March 1976 Heather and I launched our second field search at Gympie. On Wednesday 31 st

March, with John Dean, while measuring a huge ironstone slab that had once been dragged to the pyramidswestern base but had been taken no further, I found projecting from the ground a 34cm long by 15.5cm widecrude ironstone idol. It resembled others from Egypt of the God Thoth in ape form clutching the Tau, orCross of Life.

Just north of the pyramid, hidden among trees, John and I found the remains of a large smelter,consisting of a flat ironstone slab, buried level with the soil, upon which sat two great ironstone slabs with alarge boulder at one end, forming a gap the length of the two slabs of about 1m by 60cm wide. Excavations

of overlying soil from the base turned up nodules of smelted copper.Extending out from the northern side of the pyramid base was a long rubble causeway, standing

about 25m tall by about the same in width, which joined the pyramid to nearby high ground above the formerharbour waterline.

To assist us in our pyramid investigations, two locals, Mr Terry and Mrs Dian Kay, kindly arranged alight aircraft flight over the area for an aerial inspection, enabling us to photograph the structure from above,and to follow the former course of the harbour eastwards to Tin Can Bay.

A point of interest is that no stone exists naturally in the immediate township area, the nearestavailable to the ancient pyramid-builders being situated several kilometres to the north. Therefore oxen-drawn carts would have been a necessity in the pyramids construction, for transporting the smaller stones

while the more massive ones would have been hauled on ropes and wooden rollers to the construction site.

It is certain that the mining fleets sailed with livestock collected along the way in India and islandSouth-East Asia, which would have included oxen for drawing cartloads of ore from mines, as well as mulesfor removing ore from hard-to-get-at places, and then horses and camels would have also been a necessity fordeep inland exploration.

These animals would have been bred here, along with poultry, on farms established to grow cropswith which to feed the large population, which at its height may have been as high as 4,000-5,000 miners,other workers and their families. As will be shown, these colonies were often so large that the establishmentof local ruling classes became necessary; local Pharaohs supported by a priestly caste and powerful militaryback-up.

It was the initial evidence gathered by Heather and I at Gympie in 1976 which convinced us that theancient miners would not have built the pyramid without long-term colonisation in mind, particularly once

they had discovered the vast mineral wealth that existed hereabouts.*****

That Gympie could have been the site of an ancient Egyptian mining colony, inhabited by manythousands of men, women and children, seemed ridiculous to a good many people in the district, who in anycase knew nothing about ancient civilisations other than what they might have recalled from their school


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years; and the local historical society whose members knew nothing about its own local history, beyond theearly European mining and settlement period, dismissed the whole proposition out-of-hand.

Yet according to the local Aborigines, their ancestors had been visited by a race of fair-skinnedculture-heroes who sailed into Gympie in big ships shaped like birds suggestive of the old Phoeniciantriremes, which often possessed bird-headed prows among other figureheads. These culture heroes, we wereinformed, spent a considerable period of time in the district, during which they built the sacred mountain in

which a great chieftain lived, and from which they worshipped the Sun and Stars. They also dug holes in the

hills and removed the rocks, which they transported out to sea. Eventually they sailed away, promising toreturn.

How else might primitive Aborigines have described ancient mining operations? The informationprovided by this and other legendary traditions of the former tribespeople was encouraging supportiveevidence for our theory, that the Gympie district was once the site of a joint Egyptian-Phoenician miningcolony.

The local tribespeople regarded the pyramid with awe. It was a very sacred place to them, for theybelieved their Supreme Being, the Sun-God, Biame, lived on the summit. Children were forbidden to go thereand it was taboo to anyone to set foot anywhere near it.

Early 19th century European settlers were surprised to find some Aborigines with pale-coloured skins,blue eyes, reddish hair and Egyptian facial features, which they claimed, had been given to them by the race

of Culture-heroes who had settled the district in the long-ago Dreamtime.It appears that a ruler of considerable importance is entombed within the Gympie Pyramid. In 1975 I

met a Mrs Ethel Loughman [then 73 years old], who confirmed 19 th century settlers tales that there had oncebeen a deep shaft that dropped down vertically into the ground, and from which a tunnel extended deep intothe structure from the western side. The shaft was finally filled in to prevent children and cattle from fallinginto it.

I will always regret that, about this time I made the mistake of trusting a journalist, whom I took tothe pyramid on the understanding that he would not divulge the structures location. This he failed to do.

Before very long hordes of people, whole families, would-be treasure-hunters and outright vandalsflocked to the site, leaving a trail of ruin in their wake. Disheartened, we did not return to Gympie for almosttwenty years.

In August 1993, while passing through the city, we decided to pay a visit to the pyramid, by nowpractically a hill of rubble. Atop the structure I found the broken libation bowl gone and the altar stonesmashed, its fragments lying down the south side of the summit. However, projecting from the soil beneath

where the altar had once stood, I spotted what turned out to be a large sandstone block, inscribed in Egyptianhieratic script, statingLeave offerings of fruit at this stone [the missing altar] for the God.

This find encouraged us to return in May 1995. About half way up the southern side of the pyramid Ifound a large, phallic-shaped sandstone rock projecting from the rubble. Upon removing it, I found this40cm long stone to be inscribed on all sides, with a mixture of Egyptian, Libyan and Phoenician symbols.

This obvious mixed script had evolved over generations of racial intermixture in the course of which thecolonists had evolved not only their own local culture, but a new language and written script. The inscriptionread: Na-ta-wa, Pharaoh of this city of Ra, commands you to assemble here to worship the God.

We asked ourselves who was this Pharaoh? Was it for him that the Gympie Pyramid was built? Andwhat of the tunnel? Did it lead to a burial chamber beneath the pyramid?

While the name Na-ta-wa has since turned up in other Pharonic inscriptions in Queensland and NewSouth Wales, suggesting either that this pharaoh was widely-travelled, or else a Dynasty of Na-ta-was isinvolved; we may regrettably never learn all the answers to this mystery, for not only was a railway line nowconstructed past the western base of the ruined pyramid in the 1980s, but a housing development now coversits northern, eastern and southern sides!

*****From the fragmentary evidence gathered by Heather and I we may speculate upon the following:During the 3rd Dynasty [in Egypt] which began around 2980 BC, mineral-seeking explorers, probably

led by Phoenicians, very likely from a colony further north, exploring along the southern Queensland coast,

penetrated Tin Can Bay harbour, to sail inland into the present site of Gympie. Here the explorers foundgood deposits of gold, copper and tin among other precious metals and gemstones. Having mapped their findthey departed, later to return with a much larger expedition of many ships, loaded with families, supplies andoxen, mules, horses or camels for deep inland mineral exploration. In time more ships would arrive with

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To date, no sign of mass habitation has been found other than outlines of possible dwellings near anancient open-cut copper mining site, in scrub country near the Mary River northwest of Gympie. It is also

very likely that more traces of this colonys ancient settlement lie buried beneath ages of overlying soilsediments.

The huts of these colonists would have been crude and easily erased by time and later modern landdevelopment. The more substantial dwellings of the ruling class and temples of the priestly caste may yet liehidden in ruins deep in the jungle-covered mountains further inland from the former harbour. These wouldbe of the megalithic form.

With the establishment of such a large colony the appointment of a central ruler would have been anecessity. Whoever the first ruler of the Gympie colony was, who ascended the throne to adopt the title ofPharaoh we may never know, although it is clear from the Gympie Pyramid phallic stone inscription thatone of these was Na-ta-wah, and that this inscription suggests the colony was called Ra. The principal deityof this colony after Ra appears to have been Thoth. No doubt many more revelations await us on futurereturn field searches in this district.

*****Other pyramids exist in the Gympie district, although these are of the natural modified hill variety,

and resemble the true pyramids constructed in Egypt during the 4 th Dynasty [2720-2560 BC]. In thevicinities of these, remains of ancient crudely paved roads exist. They are situated in densely-timberedmountain country and lie amid rich gemstone areas.

One of these true pyramids rises 120m in height with each of the four sides measuring the same inbase length. There are also two terraced examples, which we inspected during our second [1976] Gympiesearch; one of the same dimensions as the Gympie Pyramid, the other nearby measuring 120m tall, its foursides each being 250m long at the base. The stonework on these is scattered beyond recognition by a densecovering of trees and shrubbery. Their purpose is unknown.

In the same area, high up on the south side of a mountain, I stumbled upon a huge basalt phallicstone, which I measured at 3.3m tall by 6m in circumference. The relic bore an all-seeing eye cut into its

west face, and at its north base a square formation of weathered stone slabs had been erected as a receptaclefor offerings. It reminded me of the phallic worship practices of the Sacred Mushroom cult, which during theBronze-Age spread across the Old World.

In the Murgon district, during the 1890s, an Egyptian amulet was dug up in the vicinity of an ancientroad, paved with stones, which then as now, lies buried beneath an expanse of swampland in dense bushcountry.

*****From all the available evidence gathered by Heather and I since we began our field investigations here

in 1975, the Gympie colony covered a considerable expanse of territory.The colony was accessed from the coast via Tin Can Bay and to its north, the mouth of the Mary

River at Hervey Bay near Frazer Island. These two harbours would have been hives of activity, for bothwould have been the sites of large settlements with harbour facilities, wharves where triremes sat at anchor,with vessels arriving with settlers and supplies, or departing with valuable cargoes. This entire regionextending from the coast inland through Maryborough to Gympie and Murgon is rich in haematite, used insmelting metals by the ancients, and smelting was carried out at mining sites inland as well as at the coastalbases, as evidenced by the masses of slag, often extending from the shore out into the harbours.

Hundreds of workers operated these coastal base settlements, much of the evidence now lyingbeneath modern homes. Yet there still remains scattered locations where traces of these settlements oncestood, and it is from these that we have unearthed a growing number of inscribed stones, a crude stone head,including images of the Phoenician Sun-God Baal and Earth-Mother Goddess Tanith. These images wererecovered from the remains of a crumbling temple half-buried in mangrove-covered mud during a fieldinvestigation in November 2000.

The image of Baal is that of a squatting serpent with outstretched hand holding the disc of the Sun,engraved upon a limestone slab 21cm in length by 13.5cm width and 5cm depth. An inscription in Phoenicianon the back reads: People gather at the temple. Give praise to Baal the Sun.

The carved head bore the short Phoenician inscription upon its left side: Ayga, of this land is King.Cut from a hexagonal shaped lump of chert, it measures 22cm tall by 12cm in width and depth. A 16.5cmlong by 15.5cm wide and 3.4cm deep limestone slab recovered by me from rubble among mangroves close to

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offerings to Baal. The first sacred offerings at the new temple, the house of the Sun, Baal. Queen Miwa before all gathered poursa libation at sunrise.

It would appear that this inscription describes the consecration of a new temple dedicated to theworship of Baal, by a King and his Queen, whose names, until I translated them, had not been spoken forover 3,000 years!

The temple, which is covered at high tide, measures about 60m square and was constructed of basaltand chert blocks. Standing upon a north-south axis, its entrance was at the northern end. Two large basaltrocks apparently stood at each side of the entrance. We found these lying half-buried in the rubble and coatedin oyster shells. The stone to the right measured 67cm tall by 33cm wide and 23cm deep. It bore the messagein large letterings: Boundary, whilst that to the left, measuring 52cm tall by 34cm wide and 22cm deep, alsocontained a message in large letterings which stated: To all but worshippers of the God, for trespassing, alas, there isdeath.

Clearly this temple was off limits to all but those who worshipped Baal. It would appear that thisparticular temple held some special significance.

The Tanith image recovered here, carved from limestone, measures 36cm in height by 7.5cm acrossthe head and 14cm width at the hips by 8.5cm thick. She is unique in that both hands clutch her breasts, inthe manner of identical images of the Goddess recovered from Bronze-Age Mediterranean [Phoenician] sites.

The reader will understand our excitement at uncovering this site and the discoveries we made here.We were so excited as we measured and photographed everything that we failed to notice that the tide wascoming in! We completed our work ankle-deep in the rising tide. Within a few minutes all was submerged.

It was not the first time that we have had to race the tide at waterfront archaeological sites!At another, bushland covered location extending down sloping ground to the waters edge at Hervey

Bay, some bush-bashing rewarded us with the remains of large stoneworks. At the base of a 10m high cliffcovered in thick vines and scrub, we found tumbled blocks of basalt, the remains of a wall. Another wall,built of smaller basalt stones, 50cm high, extended from near the shore up through the slope covered infoliage, and nearby we uncovered apparent remains of fallen stone dwellings.

Pressing on further we came upon a platform of stone blocks about 2m square, at the centre of whichwas placed a single, large square block. Some ceremonial structure perhaps?[we thought]. Close to the watersedge among mangroves we found another wall of large stones, half-buried in the mud, and nearby pavedstonework a few metres in width, extending from well into the scrub out into the mangrove-covered mud.Here ancient watercraft would have been dragged ashore or launched. The thick coating of oyster shells madeit impossible to examine these remains and also the waterfront boulders for possible engravings.

*****The Mary River, which winds inland from Hervey Bay through Maryborough, thence on to Gympie,

once entered the former harbour. Today the river remains a shadow of its former self, whereas in antiquity itwas much wider and deeper, permitting triremes to sail into Gympie and beyond

Turning to Tin Can Bay, in September 2000 a search of the foreshores and remote, ancient dried upbackwaters now turned to scrub-covered gullies, resulted in us turning up several small rock slabs bearing

votive offering inscriptions. These relics, scattered about the ground or half-buried in the surrounding scrub,were all that remained of a long-vanished shrine to Baal.Among these were the following:

Before the gathering Ga-sy-ga sacrificed two animals to Baalthe Sun, at this place of sacrifice on this day for a safe voyage.

AndFor a safe voyage Lu, son of Ga-sy-ga, sacrificed two animals

to Baal the Sun at this place of sacrifice for a safe voyage.

The script used is Iberian Phoenician, placing the age of these inscriptions somewhere between 1800-1600 BC.

Votive offering inscriptions engraved upon stone slabs asking the God for a safe voyage arecommonplace at coastal colony shrines and temple ruins and were left with the sacrifice as a record of the

worshippers attendance there. If the worshipper could not read or write the attendant priest did theengraving.


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Yet on this occasion Heather and I turned up one of the most startling inscriptions so far uncoveredat either of the coastal bases.

Projecting from the ground in the vicinity of the other stones, we found a large basalt slab. Measuring31cm long by 35cm wide by 6cm deep, its coating of mud was washed off to reveal an Iberian Phoenicianinscription with a ship and two fish-like images.

That night I translated the inscription to read:

Announcement: To Baal the Sun we give thanks.This day Na-ta-is crew were followed by two large fish,

Who circled our ship and led us to land in this sheltered inlet.Witnessed by Ya-si and I-ya-ga.

The two large fish sound very much like dolphins, for which Tin Can Bays waters are still wellknown!

Our investigations throughout the territory covering the vast Colony of Ra continues, and it iscertain that many more exciting discoveries await us in the Gympie/Murgon district as well as around thecoastal sites. The now destroyed Gympie Pyramid could have revealed a lot more to us, had it not fallen to

vandalism. At the time the City Council did nothing to prevent its destruction, listening instead to the expert

advice of certain Brisbane University academics that the structure was nothing more than a 19th

centuryterraced Italian grape vineyard! This excuse would sound reasonable enough, but for the fact that manystones employed in its construction weighed many tonnes and would have to have been dragged for somekilometres from beyond the town.

Also, if, as these experts claimed, the structure was nothing more than an old Italian grape vineyard,why then, was it taken over by a large number of university people who scoured the entire structure withmetal detectors?

In the end, the site was subdivided for housing as we have already stated and with the construction ofthe railway line past the west base of the ruin, the destruction was complete, and those conservative historians

whose influence upon local authorities was largely responsible for encouraging development of the site, wereat last able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Thus a relic of immense historical importance was lost to us. This must never be allowed to happenagain, never again!

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The Gympie Pyramid [south face identified by Rex Gilroy in 1975, before vandalism, and later housing development destroyed theancient monument. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The Pyramids of Giza, thelargest being that of PharaohKhufu. Note the causeway. A

feature of the Gympie Pyramidwas the causeway that linked it

to the north shore of the TinCan Bay harbour.

Illustration from Story of the

Nations.

This aerial view of the Gympie Pyramid, taken by Rex Gilroy from a light aircraft, shows the structure as it was prior tothe depredations of treasure-hunting vandals. Note the causeway that led from the north side of the former harbour to the

pyramids north base. A stone wharf once stood at the south base. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A view of the south side of the treecovered Gympie Pyramid.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2011.


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Heather Gilroy pointing to a section ofcrumbling stone terrace. The structure

resembles stepped pyramids built in Egyptaround 5,000 years ago.


A section of terracecovered in grass at the

pyramid base.Photo copyright Rex

Gilroy 2011.

The first inspection of the GympiePyramid by the Gilroys took place inOctober 1975. Here Heather Gilroy

talks with members of the Berry family,who at that time still possessed the

Gympie Ape [ie Thoth] idol, which

Mr Dal K Berry unearthed on theirproperty south of the pyramid in 1966.The group is shown here standing on the

base terrace on the south side of thepyramid, just above the [now destroyed]

stone wharf.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The pyramids south face, overgrownwith trees which had helped turn manyterraces to rubble. A terrace can be seen

to right of picture.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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Rex Gilroy discovered this half-buriedinscribed stone on the pyramid summit.

The Egypto-Phoenician inscriptiondeclared: The body of the Son of Ra,

to be provided with offerings foreternity.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Heather Gilroy, photographed with theinscribed stone. On repeated visits to the

pyramid the Gilroys carried out measurementsof the structure from all sides, particularly the

height of the pyramid and the heights andwidths of the terraces on all four sides.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A large fragment of the broken libation bowl. Its remainswere later totally destroyed by a religious group!


Heather Gilroy [left] with Berry family members inspecting a large,fragmented libation bowl, found projecting from the pyramid summit rubble.


This weathered Egypto-Phoenician inscription, found by Rex Gilroy onthe south face of the Gympie Pyramid in 1976 states: All gather here to

worship the life-giving powers of Ra the Sun.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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This inscribed ironstone slab, found onthe summit of the Gympie Pyramid by

Rex Gilroy in 1993, was engraved in alocal form of Egyptian hieratic script. Itstates: Leave offerings of fruit at this

stone for the God.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This weathered Egypto-Phoenician rock inscription was found on thepyramid by Rex Gilroy. The inscription states: Behold Ras course

across the heavens as he watches over His land.The Eye of the Sun, Ra.Behold his rays of light.

All gather in praise, by command of Na-ta-wah of the Sun.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This inscription in Egypto-Phoenician found in 1976 engravedupon a stone at the pyramids north base [since destroyed by

housing] stated: Ra-Na-ta-wah Na-ta-wah is emerging asthe local Pharaoh who ordered and oversaw the pyramids

construction. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A weathered rock inscription found on the pyramidsnorth side reads: Travellers visit the shrines of Horus

and Isis. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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The Gympie Ape [Thoth] idol, left profile.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Gympie Ape [Thoth] idol unearthed by Mr Dal K Berryon his Gympie property in 1966. The hieroglyph of a papyrus

flower carved between the squatting legs is Thoths symbol as theGod who invented the art of writing.


The second Gympie Apeidol found in 1976 near thewestern base of the GympiePyramid by Rex Gilroy. Itdepicts Thoth clutching theTau, or Cross of Life.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy

2011.


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Gilroy field assistant, John Dean stands beside twolarge ironstone slabs erected upon a stone base, and

which once served as a small smelter, in whichnodules of bronze were found. The slabs, worn with

age, vaguely resembled sphinx profiles. Thestructure, found in 1975, no longer exists, having

since been destroyed to make way for a house!Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The smelter faced the west. This photo of the leftstone displayed the weathered image of a sphinx.


Rex and Heather, assisted by their Gympie fieldassistant, John Dean, excavated the site of the 1966

discovery of the Gympie Ape [Thoth] idol.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

They succeeded in turning upthe remains of a stone

structure, perhaps the remainsof a small shrine or temple

dedicated to the God.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy

2011.


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A close view of the first stone remains of the buried structure found. The site wasphotographed before re-burial. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The phallic-shaped stone, [front view], found by Rex Gilroy inMay 1995 on the ruined Gympie Pyramid. The mixed Egypto-Phoenician/Libyan inscription states: Na-ta-wah, Pharaoh ofthis City of Ra, commands you to assemble here to worship the

God. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

Right side view of theNa-ta-wah stone.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2011.

Left side view of theNa-ta-wah stone.

Photo copyright RexGilroy 2011.

Rear view of the Na-ta-wah stone showing a

serpent head.Photo copyright Rex

Gilroy 2011.


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This rock inscription was discoveredoutside the town of Cooroy south of

Gympie. Its Egypto-Phoenicianinscription states: The life-giving rays

of the Sun, Ra. Behold Ras

messenger Horus, bringer of the light.Do other inscriptions await discoveryhereabouts?


The Mary River near the coastal city ofMaryborough, up which triremes once

sailed to and from the City of Ra whereGympie now stands.


The incoming tide had already covered theforecourt of the Mary River area templewhen this photo was taken. Note the tidewashing the remains of a wall to the left of

picture. The mangroves cover the outlines offormer chambers and other structural

remains.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This rubble is all that remains of oncesmoothed paving stones that formed the floor of

the Maryborough district Baal temple.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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Heather photographing one of two inscribedstones which once stood upright marking the

entrance to the temple. The Iberian Phoenicianmessage reads: To all but worshippers of the

God, for trespassing, alas there is death.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The back of the stone image of Baal in squattingserpent form contains the message: People gather at

the temple. Give praise to Baal the Sun.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The image of the Phoenician Sun-God Baal, as a squatting serpentholding his symbol, the disc of theSun, recovered from the rubble of aformer temple on the coast nearMaryborough, Queensland, in

November 2000 by Rex Gilroy.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy

2011.

The Baal serpent image and head of

King Ayga, flank a large inscribedstone slab containing an inscription inIberian Phoenician [chalked in due its

faded condition] which states:Announcement: To Baal the Sun wegive thanks. This day Na-ta-is crew

were followed by two large fish, whocircled our ship and led us to land in

this sheltered inlet. Witnessed by Ya-siand I-ya-ga. This inscribed stone was

unearthed by Rex Gilroy near theshoreline at Tin Can Bay, east of

Gympie. The message appears to refer

to a ship being followed by twodolphins, a species for which Tin Can

Bays waters are still well known!Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The weathered, carved stone head of KingAyga, also recovered from the ruins of the

Maryborough, Queensland waterfront templeby Rex Gilroy.



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Cultural comparisons. The limestone[Maryborough, Queensland] image of

the Phoenician Earth-MotherGoddess, Tanith [right of picture

holding her breasts] beside an ironstoneimage of the Uruan Earth-MotherGoddess, Nif in identical pose. This

pre-dates Phoenician Tanith and wasfound at Katoomba, New South

Wales by Rex Gilroy.Photo copyright t Rex Gilroy 2011.

The 39cm tall [limestone] image of the PhoenicianEarth-Mother Goddess, Tanith, recovered by the

Gilroys among the ruins of the Maryboroughdistrict waterfront temple, during their fieldinvestigations in the Gympie-Maryborough

districts in November 2000.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A crumbling stone wall, part of otherstoneworks, hidden in coastal scrub at

Hervey Bay, near Maryborough,Queensland, believed to be remains of

dwellings and other structures of the Bronze-Age Maryborough district colony, found by

the Gilroys in November 2000.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


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Coming

Soon!The latest Gilroy Book.

What was the purpose of this crumbling stone platform, found by the Gilroys indense scrub at Hervey Bay near Maryborough, Queensland, in November

2000? Was it a ceremonial structure of Egypto-Phoenician colonists who settledthe district in Bronze-Age times? Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex Gilroy inspecting a deposit of copper sulphateat ancient open-cut mining operations near

Maryborough in the vicinity of the Mary River.There is relic and rock script evidence that theMaryborough district north of Gympie was

extensively mined by ancient Egyptian-Phoeniciancolonists between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago.



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