Pyramids and finds of Australia. Ships and navigation of the Egyptians
Australia was already a fairly populated mainland when it suddenly began to reveal its secrets. In the National Park of New South Wales (Australia), 100 km north of Sydney (i.e. on the Pacific coast!), There are petroglyphs. For almost a hundred years, these mysterious petroglyphs were only a part of local folklore, born from the accounts of eyewitnesses who found them only by chance.
The very fact of the existence of hieroglyphs would not be surprising if it were not for the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs!
Both walls of the cleft are densely dotted with over 250 hieroglyphs. Next to an inscription of 250 hieroglyphs, an image of the god Anubis is carved on the stone, which obviously indicates a connection with Ancient Egypt.
Time has almost erased the hieroglyphs on the south wall, but they are well preserved on the north. Some of them are easily recognizable, and some are not. Moreover, they belong to the most archaic form of ancient Egyptian writing known to us, which has many similarities with the ancient Sumerian writing system and with which only a very limited number of Egyptologists are familiar, so even a version appeared that these hieroglyphs are a modern fake.
Promotional video:
However, one of the oldest Egyptologists, Ray Johnson, who took part in translating the most ancient texts from the collection of the Cairo Museum of History, was able to translate the "Australian" inscriptions.
As it turned out, the walls contain a chronicle of ancient Egyptian travelers who were shipwrecked "on a strange and hostile land" off the coast of Australia. They could not go back, having lost the ship. The travelers set up camp on a foreign shore, tried to adapt to unfamiliar natural conditions and suffered terribly from all kinds of poisonous creatures. It also contained information about the untimely death of their leader. This leader belonged to the royal family, and was the son of Pharaoh Djedefr, who succeeded Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) at the head of Egypt, to whom the official academic history attributes the construction of the Great Pyramid on the Giza plateau.
Djedefra (Rajedef) - Pharaoh of the fourth dynasty of the Old Kingdom. (ruled c. 2566-2558 BC). He was the heir and son of Khufu (Cheops).
It also says that they built a pyramid !!! In this area, there are indeed several buildings resembling small stepped pyramids in shape.
In fact, this inscription is a confirmation of the fact that already 4500 thousand years ago (!!!) people made long sea voyages (albeit along the mainland and from island to island, as can be done in the case of traveling from Egypt to the east coast of Australia), and therefore had the corresponding perfect courts.
One of the options for the reconstruction of the ships of the Egyptians.
The first inscriptions were discovered in 1837 by the English traveler and geographer George Gray, he set off on an expedition to the Western and Southern coasts of Australia, which had remained practically unexplored before. During a long and difficult journey, Gray discovered the Gascoigne River and set out to explore the course of the Glenelg River. But at the mouth of the river, failure awaited him - the ship crashed on pitfalls. The geographer and members of his team barely managed to get ashore. Exhausted and exhausted people made their way through the impenetrable forests to the town of Petra, which was about 500 miles away.
During one of the halts, Gray decided to explore a mysterious cave on the banks of the river. When he went inside, there was no limit to his surprise - on the sooty vaults of the cave, man-made drawings were clearly visible. But then his shock became simply enormous - the drawings found did not in any way resemble the rock paintings of the Australian aborigines, and, moreover, the figures depicted on them clearly belonged not to the aborigines, but to people somewhat reminiscent of the ancient Egyptians!
Dumbfounded, Gray rushed to his exhausted companions, who also became convinced that these drawings, clearly made many, many years ago, depict people from Egypt.
When exhausted travelers reached civilization, their messages were not greeted with enthusiasm - you never know what hungry and exhausted travelers dreamed of there.
But in the XX century. this cave and Gray's find were remembered after the same mysterious rock carvings were found in 1931. They were discovered in Central Australia by archaeologist Michael Terry. These drawings, too, did not in any way resemble ordinary rock paintings of the aborigines. The features of the face, details of clothing were carefully deduced on them - and again, both the appearance and the clothes of the painted people clearly did not belong to the natives. These figures were knocked out at a height of more than ten meters from the ground, which raised another mystery - how they were created.
A year later, in 1932, several wells were discovered near Mackay, cut through a solid rock mass. The depth of these structures was about ten meters, and according to the conclusions of archaeologists, they were made several hundred years ago. Moreover, the Australian aborigines simply did not have the equipment that would allow them to do something like that!
In 1961, not far from the town of Alice Springs, new mysterious rock paintings were discovered. They were studied by a group of researchers from the Adelaide Historical Museum and the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies. Scientists brought from the expedition more than four hundred photographs of these rock paintings. Robert Edwards, curator of the anthropology department of the Australian Museum, said: "They do not belong to any known form of indigenous culture."
In different parts of the Australian continent, mysterious signs have been found that can be mistaken for hieroglyphs. These signs resemble the hieroglyphic designations of the ancient Egyptian god Aten. Other signs represent the sacred scarab beetle, mummies and human figures similar to typical depictions of people in Ancient Egypt. One sign appears to be a depiction of an Aboriginal revered deity - the all-powerful spirit of Wonjina's ancestors, surrounded by radiance, while the other sign is similar to a hieratic script icon that can be interpreted as Wonjina's name. Numerous cave paintings in Australia are schematic, typically Egyptian images of mummies, sphinxes and other objects that have nothing to do with Australia.
These inscriptions explain a number of "strange" finds in both regions. Such as the figurine of the god Thoth in the shape of a monkey, figurines of a scarab beetle (sacred to the Egyptians) in New South Wales Australia, and pyramidal structures up to 100 feet (about 30 m) high in Australia, etc.
Back in 1909, Andy Henderson, an Australian farmer, was installing a new fence on his property. It was in Cairns, Queensland. His shovel hit a piece of iron, which he threw away without looking. But still something caught his attention, and he decided to examine the find. It turned out that this is an old coin - very rusty and unremarkable. He nevertheless brought it into the house and put it on the shelf where it had been lying for more than half a century.
In 1965, a guest-historian came to the house of the farmer's grandchildren. He became interested in an unusual coin and studied it for a long time. When he was told where and when this coin was found, he refused to believe. Still - on one side of the coin there is a horned Zeus of Ammon, and on the other - an eagle riding a zigzag of lightning. Each of these signs is the emblem of the Ptolemies, a dynasty of Egyptian kings. Andy Henderson's find dates back to the era of Ptolemy IV, who ruled Egypt from 221 to 203. BC e. Such coins served as payment to the Egyptian soldiers.
Found in Australia, a bronze coin of Ptolemy IV.
And more recently, the assumption that the Egyptians visited Australia in ancient times has received another confirmation. On the Arnhemland Peninsula, on the road near the city of Darwin, the boys found a seemingly strange pebble. It turned out to be a small sculpture of a scarab beetle, sacred to the ancient Egyptians. Archaeologists dated this find to 1 millennium BC. e.
At the same time, Australia has far from isolated evidence of a rather lively contact between the two regions as a "strange" coincidence of a number of local legends and traditions with ancient Egyptian ones. For example, the aborigines of the Land of Arnhem and the Strait of Torres even mummified their dead, adhering to a technology similar to the ancient Egyptian!.. They removed the organs and soft tissues of the deceased from the abdominal cavity, as well as his brain, making an incision in the nostril area with a bone instrument. After inserting a mummy of artificial eyes made of pearls, they embalmed the corpse and transported it 2 miles west across the sea in a boat, like the boat of Ra of the Egyptians, to be buried on the island of the dead …
Back in 1875, Shewert's expedition discovered a mummified corpse and a canoe used in a burial ceremony on Darnley Island. The famous medical scientist Rafael Cilento, who examined the found mummy, stated that both the incisions and the embalming method are the same as those practiced in Egypt during the 21-23 dynasties (i.e., almost three thousand years ago!) !!! !
And in 1931, Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith examined a mummy skull found in a New Zealand cave, and came to the conclusion that it (the skull) belongs to an Egyptian who lived at least 2000 years ago …
Thus, the hypothesis of some researchers (which, along with all similar Australian artifacts, is trying to be hushed up by academic science) that the ships of the ancient Egyptians not only sailed along the Nile, but also made transoceanic transitions, finds visible and undeniable evidence on the Australian continent.
Finds found in Egypt:
- fossilized remains of a kangaroo !!!
- collections of Australian boomerangs (see below pictures of boomerangs from the collection of the Cairo Museum) !!!
- some Egyptian names are similar to the names of Australian aborigines.
In February 1964, at the site of an ancient city in Egypt, the tomb of a woman was discovered, buried in about 1000 BC. e. Examination of the remains of the body revealed that eucalyptus oil was used for embalming. It seemed incredible. After all, the only place where such oil could be obtained from was Australia and New Guinea !!!
Let's not forget to mention that typically Australian boomerangs were also known in Ancient Egypt. Wooden objects with a characteristic boomerang shape were found, for example, in the famous tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Egyptologists believe that this is, in fact, not a boomerang, but a weapon for hunting birds. A curved stick thrown with force broke the bird's neck on the fly, and the prey simply fell to the ground. But experiments show that the Egyptian "hunting sticks" returned back like Australian boomerangs. So the fact that the Egyptians and Australians have boomerangs remains a fact.
Moreover, during excavations in Egypt and Central Australia, completely processed and polished crystal lenses were found, made … in the same way. In Egypt, these lenses were used as false eyes for statues from the 4th and 5th dynasties.
All these findings made it possible to find an answer to the question: why on the walls of Egyptian temples people are depicted who are not similar to any of the peoples conquered by the Egyptians. These are probably the inhabitants of mysterious Australia.
Ari, wife of Lord Punta
Was it possible for the Egyptians to travel so far at that time?
The Egyptian antiquities stored in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg will help us find the answer to this.
Among the various Egyptian antiquities, there is one papyrus marked with the number 1115. The text of the papyrus, dated by Egyptologists during the Middle Kingdom (about 2000 BC), tells the story of a sailor who was shipwrecked while returning from a long sea voyage. "The Tale of the Egyptian Sinukhet", preserved on papyrus, acquired and published for the first time by the Russian Egyptologist V. - S. Golenishchev. He tells of a journey and a shipwreck that took place in the Red Sea, or maybe even in the Indian Ocean:
“I will tell you about what happened to me when I went to the king's mines. I went down to the sea in a ship 150 cubits long and 40 cubits wide. It carried 150 sailors, the finest in Egypt. They saw the sky, they saw the earth, and their hearts were wiser than lions. They predicted the storm before it came, and bad weather before it appeared. The storm broke when we were still at sea and did not have time to land. The wind blew in and raised the waves up to 8 cubits. I grabbed a bunch of wood, and everyone on the ship died. None of them escaped. The wave threw me onto the island. Here I stayed for three days alone, with only my own heart as a companion. I fell asleep in the bushes, and a shadow embraced me … I heard the sound of thunder and thought it was the roar of the waves. Trees cracked, the ground shook. I opened my face and saw that. there is a snake 30 cubits in length, with a beard of more than two cubits …
Note: Egyptian cubit is approximately 466 millimeters, which is approximately equal to the length from the elbow to the base of the fingers.
He told me:
“Do not be afraid, do not be afraid, little one, do not worry … you will spend here month after month until you finish four months inside this island. Then a ship will arrive from the capital; it will have sailors you know … I am the king of Punta … myrrh and fragrant oils belong to me … there are many of them on this island …
The ship arrived as he predicted … he gave me a load of myrrh …, eye ointment, giraffe tails, large quantities of incense, ivory, dogs, monkeys and all sorts of expensive things. I loaded this onto the ship and fell on my stomach thanks to him. He told me: "You will arrive in the capital in two months, you will hug your children …"
Of particular interest in this story are the professionally presented nautical details of the ancient Egyptian sea voyage.
According to the sailor's story, he, along with the crew of the ship, was sent by the pharaoh to the mines in some eastern country on a ship 150 cubits (about 70 m) long and 40 cubits (about 20 m) wide. We are talking about a ship of truly enormous size, larger than the funeral boat of Pharaoh Khufu, found near his pyramid, and much larger than the merchant ships and caravels on which Christopher Columbus and his team reached the shores of the New World !!!
Image of a ship from an Egyptian temple
The team of 150 were "selected people from all over Egypt." To confirm these words, the text contains a capacious expression: "they saw the heavens and they saw the earth." This means that all sailors were familiar with the art of navigating by the stars and had previously made long sea voyages.
The importance of this story lies in the fact that it is evidence that the kings (pharaohs) of Egypt built huge seagoing ships and regularly sent long sea expeditions!
The constant sea voyages of the ancient Egyptians are confirmed by numerous inscriptions about expeditions to the mysterious country of Punt ("Ta Neter" - "Land of the Gods"). They are found in the Wadi Hammamat Gorge, in a dry bed between the Nile River and the Red Sea. A real sensation of recent years was the discovery on the shores of the Red Sea of the only ancient Egyptian seaport known to us - Gasuu. It was from the port of Gasuu in 2570 BC. the energetic pharaoh of the IV dynasty Sneferu sent the first known expedition to Punt. She returned with valuable loot of exotic materials and slaves.
During the reign of the second pharaoh of the V dynasty, Sahur, in 2450 BC. a grandiose naval expedition was set up at Punt. Judging by the official chronicle of the Palermo Stone, she brought a fabulous wealth: 80 thousand measures of myrrh, 2600 trunks of valuable ebony, 6 thousand weight units of electrum, as well as gum, aromatic resins and incense.
During the next, VI dynasty, the voyages of Egyptian sailors to Punt became commonplace. One of the inscriptions from the time of Pharaoh Pioti II (2246 - 2152 BC) tells about the "chief of the chamber" and naval commander Khnumhotep from Elephantine, who, together with the treasurer Khevi, sailed to Punt eleven times and returned safely.
This fact is a remarkable evidence that the Egyptians really had reliable ships capable of setting off on a long sea voyage to distant Punt. But where is the mysterious Punt, which always attracted the pharaohs of Egypt?
The most famous and colorfully described expedition, organized by the famous woman - the pharaoh of the XVIII Hatshepsut dynasty, opened the veil of mystery.
Hatshepsut
No expedition has ever been prepared with such care before. A special fleet was built in 1480 BC. Hatshepsut sent a flotilla of five giant 30-oared ships to the fabulous Punt. After 3 years they returned, overflowing with all sorts of wonders: “precious hekenu incense, hesaite tree, gold items, living world tree, ebony and ivory, brown tree, two types of incense, sandalwood, eye paints, gems, many electrum and other excellent things."
Such an abundance of precious woods and gems could only be delivered from India at that time. Moreover, the sandalwood brought in specifically points to the location of the mysterious country of Punt. There is a sandalwood tree … on the Malabar coast of South India - and nowhere else in the world !!!!
The Indian address is also indicated by the grandiose memorial temple complex of Queen Hatshepsut, built, as the wall text says, according to a project borrowed in Punta. Carved into the rock at Deir el-Bahri near Thebes, the unique complex is identical to … the terraced temples of the western coast of South India!
It is surprising that the 3-year voyage to Punt was perceived by the Egyptians as a regular exciting sea voyage. This is vividly displayed on the wall reliefs of the funeral temple of Queen Hatshepsut, depicting the country of Punt, King Punta Perehu with his immense wife Ati and the Egyptian sea expedition, solemnly staying on the shores of Punt with a huge stone statue of Queen Hatshepsut.
The locals were delighted with the arrival of the guests and perfectly understood where they came from and why. The natives did not differ from the Egyptians in their height and shoulder width. They had the same braided beards as the pharaohs, but not false, but real. They wore round brass medallions around their necks and were very pleased with their peaceful life.
However, the distant and prosperous Punt was not the ultimate land in the sea voyages of the ancient Egyptians.
Examining the walls of ancient Egyptian temples, scientists identified images of people not similar to any of the peoples conquered by the Egyptians. To their surprise, they strongly resembled … the natives of distant Australia !!!!
Is it amazing how the ancient Egyptians covered the huge sea distance to distant Australia and, most importantly, back? This happened, directly thanks to the suddenly appeared perfect technologies of shipbuilding and the rapidly developing art of navigation. As it turned out, these achievements were originally intended solely to ensure the prosperity of the deified pharaohs. Scientists realized that Egypt was simply hiding its high art of navigation from foreign cultures.
Victor Maksimenkov
