NARRATOR: Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Deep in the Brisbane Water National Park
is a mysterious site known as the Gosford glyphs.
The site consists of two massive eight foot high walls engraved
with over 300 ancient carvings.
Carvings that experts say do not resemble indigenous artwork,
but Egyptian hieroglyphs.
After deciphering the texts, 21st century Egyptologist
Raymond Johnson believed them to reveal the burial site of Lord
Nefer-Ti-Ru, a member of the Egyptian royal family
who died while visiting the area with his brother
sometime between 2637 to 2614 BC.
Absolutely beautiful out here.
I know.
NARRATOR: While visiting the area in 2016,
Giorgio Tsoukalos met with local ancient astronaut theorist
Evan Strong to get a firsthand look
at these enigmatic carvings. - Wow!
That's incredible.
I had no idea.
I mean, this looks totally different than on pictures.
So what do these hieroglyphs say?
At least one panel talks about two brothers,
two princes coming here from Egypt.
They were shipwrecked.
One of them ended up getting bitten by a snake.
He then died.
The theory is then he was interred here,
and that's why you've got hieroglyphs her,
because he died here.
But there's these other walls with a mixture of symbols.
This one over here is more of a philosophical astrophysics
style thing with symbols meaning all sorts of esoteric stuff.
Now, have these symbols at all been
interpreted by Egyptologists?
There have been a few, actually.
A few different people have done that.
What was their reaction?
Well, Raymond Johnson was one of the first people
to come here and translate.
He actually sent some of these translations
off to the Cairo Library, and Dr.
Abou Dia Ghazi ended up saying, yup, you're on the right track.
Something called proto-Egyptian.
And how old do you reckon these are?
EVAN STRONG: We're thinking, because of their prevalence,
at least in one panel of proto-Egyptian,
that it's about 4,600 years old.
Wow.
Are there any hieroglyphs that stand out to you?
Yeah. Definitely.
Follow me down here and I'll show you this other one.
So this one here we call the UFO glyph.
People have called it that since they've
been coming here because it kind of looks like a UFO.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: It definitely has the classic UFO shape.
It's got the-- the rays, or whatever you want to call it.
What would you suggest if anyone says, well, this is not a UFO.
It's-- it's some other symbol that-- but certainly not that.
EVAN STRONG: I think someone suggested it's jewelry,
but it's a completely different symbol that's upside down,
and it really doesn't quite fit in.
It's one of those symbols here that
doesn't fit into the canon.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: In your opinion,
why do you think the Egyptians made
it all the way to Australia?
I think they looking for esoteric wisdom definitely.
- From the Aboriginals? - Yes.
KEVIN GAVI DUNCAN: The ancient Egyptians, we
have stories, Aboriginal stories about their arrival
and about their visits, long before Europeans
had arrived here.
Naturally, we would have shared ceremony with these people
because they have the same similar beliefs as our people.
Egyptians have that same spiritual connection
to the sky world.
Many stories from all over this continent,
not just from here, but all over this continent,
talk about those who came by the sea
and came to these continents, and some of our knowledge,
and wisdom, and technology went back with them.
And if you do some of the research in the last pyramids
that they found, they found boomerangs
made from ironbark from here.
And they have hieroglyphs of blackfellas
around the boomerangs to take out the ducks and the geese.
Now, the question would be, why would
they paint us and carve us on their walls
if they didn't come here?
And if that meeting and relationship
was not significant, they wouldn't have carved it.
It must have been significant in order to carve.