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From: "Joshua Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 5:43 PM
Subject: RE: Ancient Civilizations
> dendriite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> > This theory about water erosion on the sphynx is very
> > interesting
>
> I know the one you're talking about - that the Sphynx's lower regions
> show 12,000 years worth of erosion, while the upper regions are
> consistent with 4500 years of erosion (matching the contemporary dating
> of 2500 BC). One theory is that the Sphynx was constructed in 10,000 BC
> as a much larger sculpture - perhaps of a full lion - and that the
> Egyptians later discovered the remains and reworked it into the
> representation of a lion-bodied pharaoh.
>
> Cool, but unlikely.
I'm not so sure. The erosion on the lower part of the sphynx is vertical and
the geologists date it at 12.5K claiming it was caused by rainfall. Rain
supposedly last fell regularly in Egypt 12.5 K years ago. But geologist and
archaeologists agree that the horizontal erosion of the head is 4.5K years
old.
Eh....who knows?
What I really want to know is whats in the hollow chamber below the sphynx's
paws!
>
> > Of course I have never seen any rebuttal to the theory, and
> > it may in fact be contrived, but it is still a remarkable idea.
>
> This site refutes it, albeit without references:
>
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/sphinx.htm
>
> Joshua
Thanks for the link!
xponent
rob
