In the new book is a chapter on the discovery and naming by Rex, of the Gympie Pyramid. There is also an aerial photo Rex took after one of the locals offered to fly them over the area back in the 70's.
It is the only known photo showing it from the air. Never before details and photographs included in the new book.
In this chapter there are photo of the original summit as well as An Archaeological dig done at the site. Rex and Heather, assisted by their Gympie field assistant, John Dean, excavated the site of the 1966 discovery of the Gympie Ape [Thoth] idol. Photo copyright © Rex Gilroy 2008.
Excerpts:
The Gympie Pyramid [as I named it] faced the four points of the compass. For an Egyptian pyramid it was unique, the summit having been employed for ceremonial functions. Partly buried in rubble on the summits eastern side we found a broken libation bowl formed from a large ironstone slab; and a large sandstone block, an altar stone, lay half buried nearby [the bowl would later be removed and the altar smashed beyond recognition by a religious fanatic].
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 world
Our 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 been ploughing his field one day in 1966, when he unearthed the fragmented remains of what he realised to be an idol.
After cementing it together he found it to be in the form of a 72cm tall by 120cm diameter squatting ape. He also found that he had torn up sandstone blocks which had formed a base upon which the idol had stood.
Dal Berry soon afterwards stored the relic away in his shed. However, after reading an article by me on ancient civilisation contacts with Queensland, he sent me the photograph 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 Knowledge of ancient Egypt in Ape form.
Carved between the squatting legs of the image was the hieroglyph of the papyrus flower Thoths symbol as the God of Writing while on the back were several weathered hieroglyphs 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 who recorded 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 up some remarkable finds; mystery rock inscriptions, ancient tools of copper and bronze, as well as pottery of ancient Middle-East origin. It was enough for many of the inhabitants to suggest that British colonists were not the first people to settle this district.
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