A British geologist claims the Egyptian Sphinx could be much older than previously thought and might have originally had a lion's face.
Colin Reader says the rain erosion on the Sphinx's enclosure suggests it was built before the first pyramid was constructed about 4,500 years ago.
Reader believes the monument's style shows that it dates back to the Early Dynastic period, making it several hundred years older than what previously thought.
Experts also found that the body of the Sphinx is disproportionate to its head, showing that the sphinx's original head was something else - a lion for instance - and re-carved later to be modeled on Pharaoh Khufu's face.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
More re age and development of Giza Sphinx
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This lion head idea is nothing new. I first came across this in a TV documentary at least four or five years ago. But I can't remember which archaeologist put forward the idea. It seems pretty convincing to me given the importance to many ancient cultures of symbolising their leader as a lion.
Proper Scientific Study is a prerequiste for the Age of the Sphinx.
Folks,there are people like Graham Hancock and Erich Von Daniken whose potty theories range from the extraterraestial origin of human civilization to Graha m Hancock's totally poppycok theory that Atlanteans created the Sphinx some 12,000 years ago.
It may be likely that the Sphinx , if it indeed was created well before the Old Kingdom, will have been created in a similar fashion to the temple complex in Turkey called "Gobekli Tepe".
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