Shock Discovery Underneath Sphinx!
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News report just in from BBC. Massive statues unearthed in Sphinx excavation.
In more serious Sphinx-related news, Channel Five will be showing a documentary on Thursday at 8pm called “The Secrets of Egypt” in which geologist Colin Reader discusses the controversy over the age of the Sphinx. Like Schwaller de Lubicz, John Anthony West and fellow geologist Robert Schoch, Reader is of the opinion that evidence of water erosion on the body of the Sphinx suggests the monument is older than traditionally accepted.
In addition to questioning it’s age, Reader agrees with others that the disproportionate size of the head might indicate that the naturally occurring outcrop of rock may have originally been carved to represent the head of a lion rather than that of a king.
Read the article: The Great Sphinx of Giza reborn as a lion in the desert
Read Colin Reader’s article: Giza Before the Fourth Dynasty
Read Robert Schoch’s article: Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza
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At the recent international conference on Geoarchaeology & Archaeominerology a paper titled “Geological aspect of the problem of dating the Great Egyptian Sphinx construction” by Vjacheslav I. Manichev, Alexander G. Parkhomenko was presented.
You can download a copy of the paper here (number 64):