Who built Gympie Pyramid?
She believes it was constructed by a Swiss horticulturalist during the late 1880s. Activist for the local indigenous KABI KABI tribe, Wit-booker, says the artefacts claimed to be Egyptian, Chinese or Italian are actually “highly significant aboriginal artefacts”. Furthermore, the Gympie pyramid site is sacred land.
How old are the pyramids in Australia?
Amateur archaeologists claim a man-made structure was built under a mountain in Queensland some 5,000 years ago. They are the only Wonder of the World still standing today – but for Australians, the Pyramids might be closer to home than originally thought.
When did Egypt come to Australia?
Just five Egyptians were counted in the Victorian census in 1871, two years after the Suez Canal route through Egypt to Australia opened. By 1911, the population was still only 26. Most of these early settlers probably came to Australia as labourers and would probably have been of European heritage.
Did the Egyptians get to Australia?
ANCIENT Egyptians visited AUSTRALIA thousands of years before Captain Cook arrived, a group of amateur archaeologists claim. And the intrepid Middle Eastern explorers may have built a pyramid under a mountain near Cairns, in north Queensland.
What did Gympie used to be called?
Nashville
Gympie, city, southeastern Queensland, Australia, lying on Gympie Creek and the Mary River. It was first known as Nashville, after James Nash, who discovered gold there in 1867; its present name comes from gimpi-gimpi, the Aboriginal word for the stinging tree.
Is there really a Gympie Pyramid?
This might be a concern if there really was a ‘Gympie Pyramid’. But the ‘pyramid’ is an elaborate hoax, an illusion based on nothing more than fantasy, fiction and a great deal of wishful thinking.
Is the destruction of the Gympie Pyramid cultural genocide?
The Gympie Pyramid, also known as rocky ridge was going to be bulldozed to facilitate the construction of a new highway in the area. To prevent this Kabi Kabi activist Wit-booker has made the claim that the Gympie Pyramid is associated with the local aboriginal group and its destruction would constitute cultural genocide.
Was there ever a pyramid at Rocky Ridge?
In 1889 W.H. Rands, who methodically mapped Gympie’s geology and mines, described it as ‘a drift of large, waterworn pebbles … consisting of quartz and of hardened, jasperised sandstone’ with ‘layers of ferruginous grit and conglomerate’. Neither geologist reported any evidence of a pyramid or other unusual remains at Rocky Ridge.
What is the story behind the Gympie ape?
The “Gympie Ape” is a carved stone statue discovered in 1966 by Dal Berry while ploughing a paddock close to the Gympie pyramid site. In 1978 Rex Gilroy claimed the statue was verified by unnamed experts as being a 3000-year-old statue of the Egyptian god Thoth.