mysterious australia newsletter - october 2012

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Vol. 2, Issue No 10

OCTOBER,2012

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ANOTHERBLUEMOUNTAINSCASEFORFORBIDDENARCHAEOLOGY.

REVISING THEYOWIEMYSTERYLIVING FOSSILSFROM THE DREAMTIME.

MEGA-MONITORS OF THEAUSTRALIANBUSH.NEWCELTICSUN-WORSHIPSITEDISCOVERED INSYDNEYSWEST.PYRAMIDS IN THE PACIFIC.


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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.

ANOTHERBLUE MOUNTAINS CASE FORFORBIDDENARCHAEOLOGY.

by Rex Gilroy.Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

In the past I have reported on footprints of hominin shape being found by me in Triassic rock deposits [208-145 million years ago] at Blue Mountain sites. This would no doubt meet with the approval of Michael A.Cremo and Richard L. Thompson, authors of the controversial book Forbidden Archaeology.

I can now report the discovery of far older hominin-type feet impressions, embedded in rock datingto the Permian Age [245-208 million years ago]!

The logical answer to the discovery of such fossils could be that they were made by animals with fivetoes whose feet were superficially in outline similar to far later hominins. Who can say, yet such anomalies ofour ancient past are worldwide in distribution. I merely present this latest find for my readers to make uptheir own minds on the mystery.

These incredible impressions were discovered by me on Thursday 4th October 2012, embedded in amassive squarish lump of Permian sandstone that had in the dim past rolled over to expose these fossils on a

vertical face at a location deep in the Jamieson Valley below Katoomba.The two feet impressions were situated to the right of a large lengthy piece of fossil palm stem. The

footprints are the left and right impressions of a single being measuring 25cm long by15cm wide across thetoes. The footprints are separated by one another by a 2cm gap. The left impression is a little distorted,curving to the right in the heel area and the five toes can be seen. The right impression toes outlines have not

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Rex and Hea th e r Gi l r oy , Aus t ra l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la ined Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r ch t eam.

Photo c op y r i gh t Rex Gi l r oy 2012.

The Jamieson Valley as seen on thewalk out to the Ruined Castle rock

formation.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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A view of the Ruined Castle rockformation.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A view of the Jamieson Valley forestbelow the Ruined Castle rock formation.


A close view of the fossil palm stemextending up from the middle of thephoto to about centre left. The two

hominin feet impressions are to its righttowards top of photo.



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REVISING THEYOWIE MYSTERY-LIVING FOSSILSFROM THE DREAMTIME.

by Rex Gilroy.Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.When the Gilroysbook The Yowie Mystery Living Fossils from the Dreamtime was released in 2007 it

created a sensation among scientific-minded relict hominin researchers, for unlike the previous book Giantsfrom the DreamtimeThe Yowie in Myth and Reality [2000] The Yowie Mystery dealt with the anatomyand physiology of relict hominins, presenting also the all-important fossil foundations of the Yowie.

The book presented evidence proving that these relict hominins were more than one species ofhuman ancestor. Indeed, Rex and Heather Gilroy presented an array of fossil skull-types of Homo erectus, todemonstrate that the Yowie was three basic forms of Homo erectus: namely an average modern humanheight, tool-making, fire-making marsupial hide clade beings; more than one pygmy-height offshoot; and agiant form which like the pygmy offshoot was a tool-maker.

The book was an immediate success, especially among serious researchers.However, shortly after the books release the first of several primitive skull-types were found and it

soon became obvious to us that they were an Australian form of African Australopithecus robustus!

Close-up of the right footprint placed horizontally facingthe upright left foot impression.


Close-up of the twisted and distorted five-toedleft foot impression.



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Subsequent research revealed that we already possessed fossil endocasts and skulls of a gracile formas well as a pygmy race.

Our work continues on the Australian Australopithecines. Meanwhile I came to the conclusion thatthe traditional Hairy Man of Aboriginal folklore pre-dated the Homo erectus form and it would appear thatthese hirsute ape-like bipedal herbivorous beings of ancient Aboriginal tradition were probably remnantsurviving groups of Australopithecines. Indeed, some may continue to survive today as suggested by sightingsof hairy apeish beings claimed seen in remote parts of the country.

When Australopithecines first appeared in Australia in the course of migrations from Africa via Asiais still being decided, but fossil feet impressions in 3-4 million years old mud and volcanic ash deposits mayhave been left by these beings. They have been found on the Blue Mountains, the Sydney district, northernNew South Wales, Central Western New South Wales and elsewhere and compare favourably with Africanexamples.

The discovery of Australian Australopithecines caused me to re-name certain skull-types once I hadrealised they were not what I had initially identified as proto-Homo erectus, rather these skulls now belongto the robust Australopithecus australis, while the pygmy form, first identified from a small ironstone skull-type from the Dundas district outside Sydney, found by Greg Foster on Thursday 12 th October 2006 during asearch we made of a Pliocene creek strata, is now re-named Australopithecus fosterii.Many other changes to classification resulted from the Australian Australopithecine upheaval requiring a

major updating of The Yowie Mystery. Subsequently I removed it from sale until a major re-working of thetext was completed to include the Australian Australopithecine skull-types, which also included photographsof these fossils and theory updates as well.

The results are: a full-updated scientific approach to the Yowie mystery. It sweeps away thenonsensical and totally unscientific claims of amateurish media-seeking would-be-if-they-could-be YowieCatchers as we call them, replacing their exaggerated claims with common-sense information of the physicalstructure of the fossil forms which we maintain the hairy people descended from., as well as the bonestructure and musculation of these beings, revealing their locomotion. Fossil feet have been studied to showhow these impressions compare with present-day Homo erectus [and now Australopithecine] Yowies.

This book remains an important addition for the libraries of sensible, thinking scientific investigatorswho wish to learn everything they can about these beings, before they head off into the wilderness in search

of evidence of these primitive living ancestors of ourselves.The gathering of the evidence took many years and apart from my wife heathers input, we heap high

praise on our leading field assistant, Greg Foster, for his tireless efforts on our behalf, in the gathering of vitalinformation and his work with me in the field turning up fresh tracks of these beings, uncovering fossilfootprints of all sizes from average hominin size to those of pygmies and giants. What more awaits us?

Three more Yowie books are awaiting publication and others will undoubtedly follow. Meanwhile thereader can expect the re-release of the updated The Yowie Mystery living Fossils from the dreamtime inthe near future.

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MEGA

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AUSTRALIAN

BUSH

.by Rex Gilroy.Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

[With some material taken from Out of the Dreamtime The Search for Australasias Unknown Animals URUPublications 2006]

On Thursday 5th May 2011 Heather and I uncovered ancient Aboriginal rock art deep in bushland near theHawkesbury River. Among the figures was the image of a gigantic lizard with spears shown embedded in itsbody. Beside the head was an almost circular engraving depicting the shield of the warrior, or one of the

warriors who had killed it. The carving of the monster reptile measured 4.5 metres in length from head to tailtip by 2.2 metres width across the outstretched front legs.

The engravings were all at least several thousand years old. The giant reptile could not be any otherlizard than the extinct giant Australian Monitor Lizard, Megalania prisca, which was once widely distributed

throughout Australia and the terror of the ancient tribespeople, and from 19th century claims, the terror alsoof the early European settlers in many regions.

Those readers wishing to know more should read our book just described. The fact is there is goodreason to believe that this 27 to 30ft [8.23 to 9.15m] lizard standing 5-6ft [1.53 to 1.83m] and of massive bodygirth, is still out there!


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To the early tribespeople these monstrous survivors of Pleistocene times were known by the nameMungoon galli, over a wide area of the northern New South Wales mountains and forestlands and as farsouth as the Blue Mountains.

The massive feet impressions of these monster goannas were reported found crossing cattleproperties in the New England district in the 1880s and early 1900s and these stories often involvedbutchered and half-eaten stock.

Similar tales persist today from remote regions of Western Australia, the Northern Territory andSouth Australia. South Australias Nullarbor Plain has a long tradition of giant monitor lizard encounters. It

was in this region in 1973 that two men, driving a jeep on a remote track late one night, were forced to cometo an abrupt stop when they saw, in the headlights glare, an immense, mottled grey-skinned goanna barringtheir way. They later described the creatures skin as leathery-looking and baggy like that of an elephants. Itstood, they agreed, at least 1.8 metres tall on all fours and was twice the length of the vehicle. The monsterhad a large head, but the men did not get a closer look at it for it strode off the track, dragging its large heavytail behind it. The shaken, nervous travellers got out of there as quickly as they could.

In Western Australia the Aborigines call these lizard giants Bungarra saying that they grow up to 20,even as much as 30ft and are man-eaters.

In the Kimberley region, one report from 1982, concerned two men, Ernie and a mate, who weredriving a 4-wheel drive vehicle along a dusty dirt road one day when they spotted some distance ahead ofthem, a moving cloud of dust, of the kind churned up by a vehicle on dusty roads, and this was what they atfirst thought it was.

However, as they drove closer they realised that the dust was being raised by a monstrous lizard, ahuge monitor about 9.14 metres in length running upon four powerful legs about 1.7 metres off the ground.

To say we were shocked is an understatement!Ernie said later. The monster was crashing its way through themulga, pushing over small trees and saplings in its way as it dashed across the path of our vehicle. We did not stop. As themonsters tail left the road we were already p icking up speed. I could still see the huge beast moving rapidly through the treesbreaking saplings in its path as we drove on.

In 1978 noted author Martin MacAdoo informed me that the Arnhem Land tribespeople andEuropean travellers have many stories of giant monitors of lengths ranging from 4.88 to 6.1 metres length.Such creatures were reported to Martin from Gulf Country informants.

In the Northern Territory Aboriginal traditions speak of these reptilian monsters as the Kadimakara.The Queensland [ie Riversleigh] fossil beds have produced remains of Megalania dating back at least 15million years. There are also Far North Queensland locals who will tell travellers that goanna monstersbetween 7 and 9 metres long still inhabit remote parts of the Atherton Tableland up towards Cape York!

Further south along the Queensland coastal districts lies Rockhampton. Back in 1981 I was visited bya Queensland soldier, Private Steve Jones, who related the following incident to me:

"During October 1965 I was with my unit on a jungle" training exercise in forest country deep inland from ShoalwaterBay on the Normanby Range north of Rockhampton, when we came upon a dead cow in a remote swampy area.

The cow had been torn apart by some massive beast which, by the cows appearance, would have been of considerable sizeand strength to have literally ripped the cow in half the way it had.

We found large reptile tracks and tail marks in the mud about the area of the 'kill'. It now became obvious to us allthat the cow had been killed somewhere on some pastureland far off and dragged through the forest to this swamp, where it hadbeen devoured.

My mates took fright. So did I. We left the area in some haste. The cow was a fresh 'kill ', not even hours old. The 20inch or so width of the claw marks in the mud, their distance apart, plus the tail" marks suggested to us that the reptile was upto 30 feet long. We also examined the drag marks for some distance through the forest, and the path trampled through the foliagein the opposite direction by the monster perhaps only half an hour before. If the monster had been up to 30 feet in length, it musthave been of considerable weight, said Steve. [It has been estimated that a 30ft/9.15metre long giant monitor lizard

would weigh at least 3,000 lbs.]Back in 1955 at Loadstone, situated just seven miles south of the Queensland border, a timber-cutter

came face-to-face with one of these giants in dense forest country. The creature sprang at him, grabbing oneof his hands and biting off the last two fingers. Another logger coming to his assistance got close enough todrive a long railway spike through the beasts head. The reptile measured 20ft in length. The men left it whereit lay. Some days later, other timber-getters visited the site but the body was gone, dragged off into the forestdepths, presumably by another of its carnivorous relatives.

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One September night in 1977, just south of the Lamington Plateau across the New South Walesborder at Kyogle, a family were woken from their sleep on their remote farm by a mystery intruder disturbingtheir fowls, alerting the dogs who were now barking furiously. By the time they reached the back door,flashing torches into the darkness, the intruder had retreated into nearby forest with the dogs in hot pursuit.It was the last time the family ever hear their dogs; they vanished without trace.

The next morning when they inspected the fowl yard, to their dismay they found the chicken wirefence torn down and enormous reptilian tracks on the ground extending across the property into the forest.

It is believed that a couple of Brisbane University scientists were called in. They inspected the sceneand made casts of the best tracks, but nothing more was ever said of the incident.

The giant monitor mystery is by no means solved, and it wont be as far as sceptical scientists areconcerned until one of these monstrous reptiles is brought in for study. But does anyone have any ideas onhow to capture a reptile which is 9.15 metres in length and weigh 300lbs.

During the winter of 1979 a huge goanna [as locals described it] mottled greyish skin-coloured and atleast 6 metres in length was reported seen around the Moruya area on the New South Wales south coast.

A farmer, John who found fresh tracks of the monsters embedded in the soil of his recentlyploughed field phoned me and at my request covered them while Heather and I drove down there formKatoomba the next day.

John covered all but one with coatings of grass, the other track he covered with a large bucket. Ourhopes of photographing and casting a large number of giant monitor tracks were, unfortunately largelydashed by rain which feel before our arrival, obliterating all but the specimen beneath the bucket. I was ableto prepare a good cast of this track, a five-toed impression measuring 30cm in length from middle claw tip toback of pad, by 31cm from the outstretched left to right claws. The track was impressed 7cm into the soil.

More recently, since 2012 Heather and I have made a number of investigations in the WollemiWilderness swamplands during the winter months, to avoid the deadly Brown and Tiger snakes that inhabitthese swamps during the summer months.

More than once I have found what I believe to be large, indistinct five-toed reptile tracks in trampledgrass and forest leaflitter. We have also photographed pathways believed made by more than one of thesereptiles through the tall swamp grass and forest shrubbery.

The Megalania mystery continues, and no doubt there will be more sightings claims reported to us atour Australian Unknown Animals Research Centre in the future. We welcome any information helpful toour researches into these reptilian giants at PO Box 202, Katoomba, NSW 2780; [email protected] phone 02 47823441.

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The Giant Monitor Lizard engravingphotographed from various angles.

Photos copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.
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Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Giant Australian Monitor Lizard,Megalania prisca Owen. Supposedly

extinct at least several thousand years,modern-day sightings claims of this

reptilian nightmare persist.Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Reconstruction of a Megalania skeleton in theQueensland Museum, Brisbane.Photo courtesy, Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

A reconstruction display of Megalania prisca in theQueensland Museum, Brisbane.

Photo courtesy Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

The plaster cast made by Rex and HeatherGilroy, from a giant monitor lizard footprint,one of a number found by a Moruya NewSouth Wales farmer in the winter of 1979.

Sightings of 3 to 6 metre length giantgoannas continue to be reported from

Moruya and other nearby south coastalNew South Wales districts.


The [reconstructed] head of Megalania prisca in detail.Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Photo courtesy

Queensland Museum Brisbane.


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NEW CELTIC SUN-WORSHIP SITE DISCOVEREDIN SYDNEYSWEST.

by Rex Gilroy.Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

On Saturday 13th October, Heather drove Nigel Kerr and I to a bushland location atop a gully where Nigel

had recently found the remains of a large mound. After a search the rugged sandstone and scrub-coveredterrain defeated me and exhaustion threatened, so I had to abandon the final stage of the search.

However, this came after some interesting finds at a creekside location where massive sandstone slabswere found in a situation as if arranged by [ancient] human hands.

Furthermore, we stumbled upon sandstone terraces on a hillside arranged like steps, but not forterraced agricultural purposes. These structures for now remain a mystery.

Near the summit of the terraced slope I spotted a number of large glyphs engraved on a sandstone rockmeasuring 1.4 metres long by 1.2 metre tall and 60cm wide. These glyphs were later translated to read:

The sacred precinct of Bel. All assemble here for worship.The Sun-Serpent [Bel]. His Eye sees all.

Behold Bel the Sun in Winter at his sacred precinct.

A crumbling wall of large sandstone slabs stands amidscrub above the gully creek at the base of the hillside

terraces. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Three of the hillside terraces uncovered by Rex andNigel. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Nigel Kerr surveys the scrub now covering a wideterrace near the hill summit.


The remains of a collapsed structure almostburied in the forest debris.



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Time was running out as the sun moved westward and we still had a battle with the scrub to return toHeather, waiting in the car on a roadside across the gully.

As we worked our way along the summit to find a way back to the other side of the gully, I spotted aslab of sandstone that bore grooves. Picking up the stone I was pleased to discover that it bore a face. Therelic was coated in dirt, and it was only after washing it back home that evening that I discovered the image tobe Bel, his face enclosed in a Phrygian cap and the suggestion of a beard. There was an ear on his left side andhis left hand holding an image of the Sun with five fingered light rays extending upward. There were threemore rays above the face but apart from a continuance of the beard and glyphs for the Sun and B for Belthe right side of the face had worn away.

The Bel head measures 21cm tall by 22.5cm deep and 7.5cm wide. Due to years of surface probablydeterioration the relic required chalk-outlining of the features for photographic purposes. It does not appearto have been the work of an artisan, but a reasonably skilled ancient settler, who probably created the imageas a household deity.

It is rather unfortunate that in more recent times civilisation has encroached upon the region in theform of modern housing developments, thus destroying so much of this ancient civilisation. However, whatis emerging from the hidden gullies that cannot be built upon, are the remains of Celtic colonisation of the

western Sydney district dating back at least 3,000 years. The colony was principally based upon farmingbeyond the remains of the temples they built.

Further research is certain to turn up more evidence further demonstrating that Bronze-Age Celtsonce had a strong influence upon the unknown history of Australian colonisation and exploration.

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Rex Gilroy stands beside Celtic ogham glyphsengraved on a rockface stating Bel.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Soon after the Bel inscription find, Rex and Nigelstumbled upon this large sandstone boulder containingthe Celtic messagereferring to The sacred Precinct of

Bel. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A closer view of the inscription.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The chance discovery made by Rex of a sandstone headof the Sun-God, Bel here photographed in situ, the faded

engraved surfaces coated in forest dirt.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The left profile. After careful washing, the weathered andfaded engraved stone revealed a head of Bel. The encircled

face depicts Bel as the Sun, above which are three strokes, ielight rays; below the ear is depicted the left hand which bears

a Sun image with five light ray fingers. There is also the outlineof a beard continuing around to the right face profile.


The right face profile is largely worn away. Theglyphs on the rear state Bel the Sun.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Frontal view of the face.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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PYRAMIDS IN THE PACIFIC.By Rex Gilroy

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

This article is based upon the Gilroys book Pyramids in the Pacific The Unwritten History of Australia[1999, URU Publications 2000]] This book contains the results of over 50 years research by Rex Gilroy,Australias foremost researcher of unexplained mysteries.

If you have ever wondered who were our earliest Stone-Age inhabitants and who really discoveredAustralia, then this is the book for you. Pyramids in the Pacific contains a wealth of information andphotographs demonstrating that Australia is a land of unsurpassed archaeological mysteries beyond ourwildest dreams.In Pyramids in the Pacific Rex Gilroy presents evidence that, besides the presence of giant tool -makinghominins and other smaller races which preceded the Aborigines, Australia was the birthplace of modernhumans and also the birthplace of civilisation in the form of a highly advanced megalithic culture whichspread out across the Earth to influence the rise of all others at the dawn of history, giving birth to thelegend of Atlantis during Copper, Bronze and Iron Age times, Australia and its Pacific Island neighbourswere visited, colonised and mined by the peoples of India, Egypt, Phoenicia, Libya, Greece, China andmany other ancient lands.

*****ne day in 1931 at Glenloth, Victoria on a windswept sand hill, the remains of the shoreline of a long-

vanished lake about 100 km south of the Murray River, John Gibbs, a 10 year old local boy was playingin the shellgrit on an ancient Aboriginal midden.

In a basin of the sandhill amid the debris of broken shells, he picked up a large fragmenting, football-sized lump of petrified mud. Protruding from one of the fragments he found a small bronze coin.

Years later a Melbourne Museum numismatist would identify it as Greek and that it had been mintedin Egypt during the reign of the Greek Ptolemy Philometor the 6th, in the 2nd century BCE.

The suggestion as to how the coin turned up where it was found is of course, that it had been leftbehind by ancient visitors, Greek explorers perhaps, or even Arabs, Indians and Malayans with whom theGreeks traded.

Similarly in 1961 a family picnicking on the Daly River west of Katherine in the Northern Territory,found a gold scarab, an object of worship of the ancient Egyptians. How did this valuable ornament find its

way to such a remote location?One might ask the same question of a 2000 year old carved stone head of the ancient Chinese

Goddess Shao Lin [Protectoress of mariners at sea] recovered from a beachfront hillside at Milton on theNew South Wales far south coast in 1983, and the many ancient rock inscriptions of Phoenician, Libyan,Egyptian, Celtic, Scandinavian and other origins that have turned up across Australia.

Relics, rock inscriptions and megalithic ruins, left here by seafaring adventurers who came fromcivilisations now long turned to dust. They sailed in search of new lands rich in gold, silver, copper and tin,precious stones and pearls, using the worlds oceans as watery highways.

It is one of the objectives of this book to demonstrate that these people not only discovered andmined the mysterious Great Southern Land and its island neighbours, but established colonies, some of

which survived for generations and were large and important enough to establish a local ruling class. By the

time they vanished they had influenced the cultures of the native peoples of the region, leaving behind themghostly megalithic ruins and temples, tombs and pyramids and rock scripts in a host of ancient tongues, relicsthat continue to perplex conservative historians, and question the dogma that the peoples of the ancient

world lacked the ability to construct and navigate ocean-going watercraft.The fact is, that people were putting to sea centuries before the invention of a written language and

that the watercraft they sailed in were far from flimsy.Australia had, it seems, always been known to someone. No doubt seafarers from South-East Asia

were first to find our shores and word passed to the Indo-Aryans of the Indus Valley, Sumeria and in time tothe Babylonians and Persians. The tradition was already hoary with age by the time it was given to the firstrulers of Egypt by the Sumerians. Celtic and pre-Viking Scandinavian peoples, the Greeks and later theRomans followed and the Indian and Pacific Oceans became watery highways which in time became

highways of commerce that provided easier and safer trade routes to and from lands hitherto accessible onlyby long and arduous overland expeditions.

While these historical events were transpiring there was already great cultural activity taking place onthe opposite side of the Pacific, for the Amerindian civilisations were also putting to sea, their great balsa

wood craft carrying large migrating groups of men and women with food and livestock across the central

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Pacific and beyond and those who returned to their home ports brought tales of the great lands that layacross the water beyond the western horizon.

Thus its can be seen that Australia sat between two oceans, or rather, two great watery highways bywhich the civilisations of the ancient world had access to Australia and its riches. This traffic increased withthe onset of the Bronze-Age which lasted from around 2000 to 1400 BCE.

In 600 BCE Anaximander drew a world map in Myletus describing a southern continent.Theopompus of Chios in the 3rd century BCE drew a similar world map and wrote that far beyond India and

the known world there lay a great island in the region where Australia is situated.In 239BCE Eratosthenes, the Greek scholar drew a world map as a sphere on which he described the

Great Southern Continent of Ausio. He also measured the Earths circumference as being about 28,000miles, an error of excess of only 13 per cent.

It is obvious that maritime and geographical knowledge was far more advanced in the ancient worldthan hitherto realised by many historians.

In 150BCE Crates of Mallos, in Asia Minor, constructed a 3.3m diameter world globe, upon which hedepicted four continents divided by two great oceans, one with a north-south axis, the other with an east-westaxis, intersecting west of the Mediterranean. Asia/Europe/Africa he described as a single continent,Oecumene.

Separated by his east-west ocean he described Perioeci, known as North America. Below this in the

vicinity of Panama and to the south of it he placed Antipodes, known today as South America. Far belowthese land masses in the region now occupied by Australia, he placed Antoeci.

Flavius Philostratus of Athens [175-249 AD] wrote:If the land be considered in relation to the entire mass of water, we can show that the earth is the lesser of thetwo.Unless the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and others had

not crossed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, how else could Philostratus have known that the oceans coverthe greater part of the earths surface.

Early in the 20th century, anthropologist Sir Grafton Elliot Smith of Manchester University, claimedthere was an apparent Egyptian influence in the cultures of the natives of New Guinea and island Melanesiadating back over 2,000 years. He pointed to aspects of their art and religious rites and beliefs, including solar

worship and mummification. Today the islanders still carve wooden human-bodied deities with bird beaks

and often horns with surmounting sun and moon discs, figures remarkably similar to ancient Egyptian deities.The people of Darnley Island, Torres Strait once mummified their dead by removing the stomach

contents, then extracting the brain by making an incision through the nostrils with a bone instrument. Afterinserting artificial eyes of pearl shell, they embalmed the corpse with bark cloth bandages, painting it in redochre [their colour for death, as with the ancient Egyptians] and like the Egyptians, rowed it westward to anIsland of the Dead in a funerary canoe shaped like the Boat of Ra , with an all-seeing eye painted on theprow for burial in a roughly dug tomb, in imitation of the ancient Egyptians, who ferried the mummies of thePharaohs across the Nile River to the west bank tombs.

In 1975 my wife Heather and I discovered the now famous Gympie Pyramid in a forested farmingarea. Built of small to large sandstone-ironstone rocks, the crumbling edifice measured 60 metres high, itssides facing the four points of the compass. With 18 terraces, or steps the structure resembles stepped

pyramids built in Egypt around 5,000 years ago. The terraces were composed of stones of various sizes, someweighing up to 4 tonnes, the summit being capped by one enormous slab weighing around 10 tonnes. Treesup to 600 years old growing up through the crumbling stonework demonstrate its pre-European settlementage.

Later in 1976 near the pyramids western base, I unearthed a small weathered ironstone idol, thoughtto depict the Egyptian god Thoth [god of writing and wisdom] in ape form, clutching the Tau Cross of Life.

The pyramid actually stood on the northern shoreline of a long dried-up harbour which Brisbane Universitygeologists believe, until about 1,000 years ago, extended from east to west for approximately 55 km inlandfrom Tin Can Bay. Local ancient Aboriginal legends tell that, in ages past a race of Culture-heroes sailed upthe harbour in big canoes shaped like birds. They dug holes in the hills, carrying the rocks back out to sea intheir vessels. These culture-heroes also built the sacred mountain [pyramid] and other structures still hidden

in the district, passing on their Sun-worship religion to the tribespeople before they left. How else couldprimitive Aborigines have described a Bronze-Age, Middle-East mining operation?

Local residents have been turning up rock inscriptions, pottery fragments and other relics of ancientMiddle-East origin since the mid-19th century. They have also uncovered apparent pre-European open-cutcopper, tin and gold mining operations at widely scattered locations of this mineral-rich district, all of which


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supports my theory that the Gympie district was once an important Bronze-Age Egyptian Phoenician miningcolony, supporting a sizeable population.

In 1994 a few short months apart, Heather and I discovered large numbers of stones of varying sizes,inscribed with Phoenician and Egyptian scripts at rich gemstone-bearing locations on the Bremer River westof Brisbane, Queensland and at Moree in northern New South Wales. Some of these inscriptions were inCanaanite script, placing the era of mining of these sites no later than the 14th century BCE.

The remote locations of many of these mining operations sometimes hundreds of kilometres inland,suggests horses or camels would have been used for transport in the search for mineral deposits and certainlyoxen-drawn carts for the removal of the separated metals [which had been smelted at the site] to coastalbases. These animals would have been shipped from Asian ports in large vessels to these coastal bases.

If Middle-Eastern explorers had colonised the Australian-West Pacific region, they presumablyreturned home with items obtained hereabouts. Such evidence is emerging. Opals identified as Australianhave been recovered from Mediterranean Phoenician settlements, and in 1964 the tomb of a woman, datingto 1000 BCE was excavated by British archaeologists that revealed that Eucalyptus resin had been employedin the embalming process. As in those times Eucalyptus could only have been obtained from Australia orNew Guinea, it seems reasonable to assume that Egyptians had once sailed these waters.

The Sun-worshipping peoples of the Old World who entered the Indian Ocean at the dawn ofmetallurgy, believed that, if they continued eastwards in the direction of the rising sun, they would eventuallyrediscover the Lost Paradise of Mankind, the abode of the Sun-God, from where He arose each morning tocross the sky; the land of Kenti-Amenti [Land of the Gods] of the Egyptians and, after Euro Asia and Africa,the third continent. Indeed, the third continent Australia was known and explored before Bronze-Ageseafarers first sighted the Americas.

Our bookPyramids in the Pacific reveals in detail that traditions of the Lost Paradise of Mankind[ie the Garden of Eden] spread across the Old World from Mesopotamia. Yet the Sumerians believed thelocation of the Lost Paradise was located in the southern land of Arali. Here the first men and women hadlived in a state of bliss, until they were forced to leave because of natural disasters [or as other traditions statefor displeasing the Gods].

The Lost Paradise, first man/first woman mythology is found wherever the megalithic monumentswere erected, from the British Isles, across mainland Europe and on through western, central and South-EastAsia into Australia and its west Pacific island neighbours.

The spread of megalithic Stonehenge and Carnac type structures across the earth is a point ofcontention among cultural diffusionists and conservative archaeologists alike. From where and when thisculture spread is still one of the greatest mysteries of antiquity as is the identity of the people responsible forit.

Current archaeological opinion holds that the megalithic culture arose in western Asia around 5000BCE and spread into Europe where it died out about 1500 BCE.

But what of the other structures that extend on down through island South-East Asia into Melanesiaand New Zealand, dating back in time until the oldest are found in Australia?

Indeed, the oldest known Australian megalithic monument and stone arrangement sites average from10,000 to over 20,000 years old, with extensive sites in the central west of New South Wales possibly theearliest built on Earth. These facts imply that the first civilisation arose in Australia.

At many of these sites Australia-wide are to be found examples of the megalithic script [as I call it]engraved upon monuments or upon nearby rock slabs.

When found along often extensive alignments of standing stones, or at stone circles, they frequentlybear astronomical information, while others found at crude megalithic temple sites refer to the various deities

worshipped by this mystery race.One thing is certain, these people were avid Sun-worshippers. It has taken me some 28 years to

translate this megalithic script, found at sites dating back at least 10,000 years BP [Before Present] whichimplies the Australian megalithic script certainly pre-dates the earliest known Old World [Bronze-Age] scriptsof the Sumerians and Phoenicians [ie around 1500 BCE]. The earliest Australian script contains glyphs to befound in the later scripts of the Old World.

From translations of the Australian mother script I have identified the name of the Sun-God Nimand the Earth-Mother Nif [among other deities] of this people.

Aboriginal Dreamtime traditions speak of this mystery race of culture-heroes as having rolled stonesacross the land and that they worshipped the Sun, Moon and stars.


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The limitations of space preclude me going into greater detail for now on the Lost Civilisation ofAustralia but the reader can learn more in greater detail in Pyramids in the Pacific and also in our bookURU The Lost Civilisation of Australia [URU Publications 2005].

Chinese traditions centuries old speak of the Great Southern Land of Chui Hiao [among other names]as being inhabited by a race of Gods who built in stone. They also describe it as a land of indescribable

wealth, and their most ancient writings and maps show they were more than mere causal visitors here.It was Franciscan missionaries who went to China in the 16 th century, who were the first Europeans

to obtain written evidence pointing to Chinese contacts with Australia. This evidence included copper scrollsdating from the 6th century AD onwards, including a crude 6th century map of Australia. These scrolls are stillbeing translated. They tell of such things as voyages across the Pacific Ocean in the 10 th and 11th centuries ingigantic fleets of massive junks [60 to 100 ships] carrying hundreds of passengers each.

The Confucian work Spring and Autumn Annals [481 BCE] records the observations of two solareclipses by Chinese astronomers, possibly in Arnhem Land one [by modern calculation] on April 17th 592BCE and the second on August 11th 553 BCE

And Atlas of Foreign Countries written between 265 and 315 AD describes the far north coast ofthe Great South Land of Chui Hiao as being inhabited by a race of small, one metre tall black people anobvious reference to the pygmy-sized Aboriginals identified by Australian Anthropologist, Norman B Tindalein 1938 in the mountains above Cairns in Far North Queensland.

Chui Hiao is described as lying some 30,000 li away from southern China. Here it is stated plantsgrow leaves in winter and lose them in summer, as occurs in Australia. In the south temperate zone of thesouthern hemisphere the seasons are the opposite to those of China where in the north temperate zone,plants grow leaves in summer and lose them in winter.

The book Shih-zu written in 338 BCE, reported the presence of apparent kangaroos in the ImperialZoo, Peking. Further similar reports continued in later dynasties in the north western part of Hopei Province,in the north-eastern part of Shansi Province and in Chahar, Jehol and in places in the north-easternprovinces. Even as recent as about 1938 people could still see wild kangaroos in Heilung Kiang Province, thereason being that Emperor Chao of Yen had in 338 BCE dispatched a fleet of junks, with orders to return

with more of these pouched animals for the Imperial Zoo, from the Southern Land of Chui Hiao.In the book The Classics of Shan Hai Jing [Classics of Mountains and Seas] a treatise on geography

divided into parts, are further remarkable disclosures. Believed written by the the Great Yu [who becameemperor in 2208 BCE] about 2250 BCE the book may refer to visits to the American west coast, while otherparts of the narrative suggest considerable knowledge of Australia, beginning in the Broome area of Western

Australia, across the Kimberley region to the east coast.Australia is described as a great wilderness land across the southern seas called The Great Beyond

where dark hopping animals called Shuti were said to have had two heads and carry their young in a pouch.To Chinamen who had never seen them before female kangaroos with pouched joeys would certainly haveappeared to have two heads.

The fourth part of this book deals with geographical features of north-western Australia, the rivers,flora and fauna, including the dolphins of the Broome area. Arnhem Land is similarly described along with agood description of a koala.

It also speaks of a gold mining colony, possibly somewhere in the Cooktown area of Far NorthQueensland and the finding of black opals, which are to the best of our knowledge, almost entirely confinedto Lightning Ridge in north-western New South Wales.

Centuries old maps found in China describing the southern continent are indisputable proof ofextensive Chinese contact with Australia.

In Taiwan University there is a map drawn of a porcelain plate, which shows the southern coastline ofNew Guinea, the east coast of Australia as far south as the Melbourne area, and the crude outline of

Tasmanias north coast. It dates back 2,000 years. Other maps of the same period show, if crudely, the entirecontinental coastline.

In 1584 the Jesuit missionary Father Mateo Ricci, during a lengthy stay in China, was given a copy ofa large world map, the original at least some centuries older. The portion dealing with the islands of South-

East Asia includes the unmistakable outlines of New Guinea and Australia.Another virtually unknown explorer of our coastlines was Japan. Japanese history books record that

in the early years of the 15th century their mariners made voyages to Australia in search of pearls.The famous Japanese pirate admiral Yama da Nagamasa, with a fleet of forty ships, navigated by

Koreans and crewed by Japanese explored every land from Japan to Australia, between 1620 and 1633.


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Japanese texts of that time referred to Australia as Sei-yo, meaningThe Great South Land and Sei-tso,The South Land of Pearls.

Far earlier Japanese claims of contact with our shores date back at least 2,000 years. These tell ofmineral-seeking voyages to the Arnhem land-Gulf country region.

In the Kojiki or Record of Ancient matters written in 712 AD the southern Underworld isdescribed as being inhabited by weird animals [some of which carry their young in pouches attached to theirbodies] and giant birds [the Emu?].

The Nihongi or Chronicles of Japan relates that in 667 BCE the Emperor Kami-Yamato-Ihare-Bikoat the age of 45, heard that there was a fair Land of the Gods encircled on all sides by mountains, situated atthe actual centre of the world, located where Australia is situated and that it contained vast wealth in pearls,precious metals and stones. He thus declared:

I think that this land will undoubtedly besuitable for the extension of the Heavenly task [ie for the further expansionof the imperial power] so that its glory should fill the universe.

Thus having claimed Australia for Japan he dispatched a large fleet of ships, commanded by AdmiralNigi-hoye-lu [Soft-Swift-Sun] to the Great South Land to eventually return laden with gold, pearls and otherriches.

A report of 460 AD tells of Japanese mariners who, having landed somewhere in the Gulf ofCarpentaria, had to defend themselves with bows and arrows, against a number of tall wild black men who

attached them with spears soon after they had gone exploring in the nearby scrub.I hope the foregoing information will whet the appetite of readers for Pyramids in the Pacific and

its refreshing approach to our unwritten history of discovery and exploration. This book does not concernitself with the voyages of Captain James Cook RN or the earlier Dutch mariners for their exploits are too wellknown to rate repeating. I offer instead a literary time machine which will take the reader through a vastpanorama of ancient mysteries; fossil footprints of giants and other primitive hominins that walked our landmillions of years ago; megalithic temples, Stonehenge-like circles and other astronomically alignedmonuments of the unknown Lost Civilisation of Australia the lost race of the Solomon Sea and othersunken megalithic culture centres of the west Pacific Ocean; ghostly pyramids and ziggurat-type structures,stone heads and many other unexplained mysteries of our unknown ancient past; more than enough todemonstrate that our history is far older than most Australians realise.

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This carved stone head of the ancient ChineseGoddess Shao Lin [Protectoress of mariners at sea]found at Milton, south coastal NSW in 1983. Dating

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Section of the large world mapdescribing Australia, obtained in

China by Father Mateo Ricci in 1584.It is a copy of an original dating back

at least several centuries earlier.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2012.

An ancient Scandinavian rock inscription [11 century],one of a set of three found on a rock above the

Hawkesbury River NSW by Rex Gilroy in 1989. It readsMul or Molnir] sails his ship by the sun. The ships andtheir crews have journeyed up-river to the south and

returned. This is Yas ship. Those letterings are just someof the many pre-Viking and Viking age Scandinavianinscriptions coming to light throughout Australasia,

demonstrating Scandinavian voyages hereabouts datingback to the Bronze-Age times.


A megalithic stone circle, discovered on theMoonbi Range, New England NSW by Rex

Gilroy in 1991 and which is one of manysimilar structures left in the area by themysterious Australian Lost Civilisation.


This partly-buried large carvedstone head dis situated on thesouthern side of the megalithiccircle. A nearby rock inscription

identifies the image as that of Nimthe Sun-God of this mystery race.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one

which will beheld on SATURDAY17THNOVEMBER,2012same time, same place12 Kamillaroi Road, Katoomba.

Our contact information: Phone: 02 4782 3441, Email: [email protected][or catch our website onrexgilroy.com or mysteriousaustralia.com].

So until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

Rex and Heather

Sections of the 480 or so Egyptianhieroglyphs found on a Cliffside cutting

near Gosford NSW. Believed to pre-datethe 4

thdynasty [ie before 2780 BCE] they

are indisputable proof of Egyptiancontacts with our shores.

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