> From: Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09 AM > > The Fool wrote: > > > > Well if you mean writing. The sphynx is estimated as being 8000+ years > > ago. About 1-2000 years after the domestication of the cat. > > > Most egyptologists think that the Sphynx was build at the same time as > the Great Pyramids. If you want to conjure non-official opinions, then > there are theories that made the Sphynx as young as 1000 years and > as old as 1 billion years old :-P
There was a NOVA program (or some orther pbs science program) on the sphynx a number of years ago. It was about how the sphynx had way more rain erosion than historical rainfall averages could ever account for if it was the same age as the the other artifacts around it. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
