“During a visit in 1984, Dash actually discovered the culprit (or perhaps he was one of several) inscribing hieroglyphs into the rock face.
“Dash further reports that, after his first encounter with the hieroglyphs in 1975, for the next five years, each time he visited the area new glyphs had appeared,” Feder writes. He says they were first noticed in 1975 by a local surveyor, Alan Dash, who had been visiting the region since 1968 but had never seen them before. Feder spells out why the archaeological fraud at Gosford is a transparent fake and poorly done. The post links to an article about the supposedly 5000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs near Gosford.īut the hieroglyphs have been dismissed as a hoax as far back as 2010, in the book Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum. “Did ancient Egyptians explore and settle in Australia thousands of years before Captain Cook?” the article says, adding that “their existence clearly shows that once upon a time there was a culture that possessed detailed knowledge of Egyptian Hieroglyphs – and may have even spoken the Egyptian tongue – that thrived here long before European settlers arrived in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia”.
The October 4 Facebook post (screenshot here) links to an article on the Mysteries Unsolved website about the supposedly 5000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs in the Brisbane Water National Park near Gosford on the NSW Central Coast. The post claims that “if this has happened in Australia there’s no reason not to believe that there were inhabitants in NZ long before the Maori.”īut experts in Egyptology, archaeology and history have debunked the Australian hieroglyphs as fake, saying they were produced by “a person or persons with no Egyptological training”. A Facebook post questioning the first nation status of New Zealand’s Maori people does so by pointing to the claimed presence of 5000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs in Australia.