I Have Solved The Riddle Of The Sphinx, Says Frenchman

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12-14-2004 | Nic Fleming

[Lijahsbubbe]

It's Bush's fault.

[danmar]

Vassil Dobrev, a French Egyptologist,

A Russian name a French Man? Hmmmmmm!

[blam]

"Egypt was "wet" up until about 7,000 years ago."

The last 'surge' of the Ice Age melt was 7-8,000 years ago...probably changed the climate.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, thanks Blam. Now I'm off to search the FR threads for something related that I remember...

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[SunkenCiv]

this isn't the topic I'm thinking of, but it is quite pertinent:

Djedefre - History
Ancient Egypt dot Org ^ | Last update: 8 May, 2003 | Jacques Kinnaer
Posted on 08/09/2004 4:25:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1188269/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Khufu And The Chamber Of Secrets
IOL ^ | 11-28-2002 | Owen Coetzer
Posted on 11/28/2002 11:14:44 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/797542/posts?page=1

[SunkenCiv]

Khufu and the chamber of secrets (new Info!)
IOL ^ | November 28 2002 at 02:24PM | By Owen Coetzer
Posted on 11/29/2002 6:14:21 PM PST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/798093/posts

[SunkenCiv]

ah, here's the post I was looking for:

Tomb May Shed Light On 10th Plague
Boston Globe ^ | 11-23-2004 | Charles M. Sennott
Posted on 11/23/2004 6:11:43 PM PST by blam
67 posted on 11/24/2004 9:54:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1287173/posts?page=67#67

[SunkenCiv]

Head of King Djedefre:

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Note that the Sphinx has a jutting chin conspicuously absent on all the members of that family (whose images survive) from Sneferu on down.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Sphinx facing its own image on the ground ping.

[Swordmaker]

...However Dr Dobrev noticed that the causeway connecting Khafre's pyramid to the temples was built around the Sphinx - meaning it was already in existence.

Let me see if I have this straight... The Sphynx was built by Khafre's half brother (and Khufu's son), Djedefre, who followed him as Pharoah... and this Frenchman with the Russian name deduced all this because Khafre's causeway from his Pyramid JOGGED to avoid the already existing Sphynx???? Did Djedefre build it BEFORE he became Pharoah...

NOSE PICKING! He reached in and found a bugger and now is explaining the whichness of the why because of what he found on the tip of his finger!

[Swordmaker]

...All known statues of Khafre show him with a beard - but the Sphinx has none. Dr Dobrev says fragments of a giant beard found beneath the sphinx that survive in Cairo Museum were a later addition.

What did they stick the tons of beard on with? Egyptian Beard Glue? Gum Arabic???

[Swordmaker]

What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?

The cootie in the Cootie Game being played all day by two toddlers.

[Swordmaker]

Although popular legend blames Napoleon and his troops during the French campaign in Egypt (1798-1801) for having shot the nose off the Great Sphinx, in fact this story just isn't true.

It has never "rung true" that Napoleon would have permitted such desecration. Napoleon is credited with the CREATION of Egyptology as a science. It was he who brought Champollion to Egypt to study the ruins.

[blam]

Drought That Destroyed A Civilisation

[Havoc]

The water damage to the Sphinx doesn't mean it's really old. It just means it has suffered water damage. The rock is a mix of hard and soft stone, something that get's glossed over in the reading or reporting. And effects of water on stone have been largely misreported or outright lied about in science for years. Stellagmites and Stellagtites of a length of 5 feet can be shown to grow over a period of less than 50 years, something that has been said takes thousands - even millions of years (for the sake of the evolution crowd no doubt). The weathering of the rock if for no other reason than what it is, could likely be counted for on a period of a few hundred years or a few thousand. There's no real reason to expect longer than that given that scientists can't even honestly account for any exacting level of rainfall or flooding beyond the last 100 years. They're making guesses and not even what I'd call "educated" ones.

Their guessing is based on the same faulty logic that discusses "anual rings" in polar ice core samples. Glacier Girl was covered in hundreds of feet of snow and ice pack in less than 50 years with hundreds of "annual rings". By faulty science, we'd have to call recent recorded history an utter lie and place WWII back several hundred years. That or admit the scientists are clueless and bs us to look like they know what they're talking about.

[muawiyah]

You simply check the Carbon 14 levels in the air inside the ice. I don't believe they rely on ice rings.

[SunkenCiv]

Here's an oldie (7 Jul 99):

Sahara's abrupt desertification
by Harvey Leifert

German scientists, employing a new climate system model, have concluded that this desertification was initiated by subtle changes in the Earth's orbit and strongly amplified by resulting atmospheric and vegetation feedbacks in the subtropics. The timing of this transition was, they report, mainly governed by a global interplay among atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and vegetation... the model led to the conclusion that the desertification of North Africa began abruptly 5,440 years ago (+/- 30 years). Before that time, the Sahara was covered by annual grasses and low shrubs, as evidenced by fossilized pollen.

[SunkenCiv]

another oldie:

Evolution in Your Face
by Patrick Huyghe
Omni

Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, is home to more than 300 species of cichlids. These fish, which are popular in aquariums, are deep-bodied and have one nostril, rather than the usual two, on each side of the head. Seismic profiles and cores of the lake taken by a team headed by Thomas C. Johnson of the University of Minnesota, reveal that the lake dried up completely about 12,400 years ago. This means that the rate of speciation of cichlid fishes has been extremely rapid: something on average of one new species every 40 years!

Interesting that Lake Victoria ceased to be, then came back, and all so recently.

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[SunkenCiv]

Djedefre preceded Khafre on the throne. His burial complex at Abu Roash north of Giza was left unfinished, presumably because of his short reign, and was picked apart for building stone over the centuries. Djedefre's brother didn't bother to finish it either, making it plausible that there was an intrafamily struggle of some kind. Menkaure, son and successor of Khafre, wasn't able to build nearly as big a pyramid at Giza, and his successor reverted to a mastaba, constructed some miles south. It's also plausible to suggest that Egypt was coming apart, either due to the squabbles and dynastic struggles, or due to the weather, or due to a massive migration into the Nile Valley by other ethnic groups, or some combination of these.