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Okay so it's not quite Sydney. But one of the most controversial urban legends still making the rounds is the "Hieroglyphs" found at Kariong on the Central Coast. For decades, the most popular theory was that the 300 engravings found on two sandstone walls in the 1970s were done by stranded Ancient Egyptian sailors thousands of years ago. They depict boats, animals, stick men, and two are said to be the names of kings, one of them Khufu. They have been dismissed as fakes by authorities and academics since their discovery, but amateur Egyptologists continue to try to prove the theory, despite nearby 250-year-old Aborigine petroglyphs showing considerably more erosion