Note that the Sphinx has a jutting chin conspicuously absent on all the members of that family (whose images survive) from Sneferu on down.
A Russian name a French Man? Hmmmmmm!
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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
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
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
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
Note that the Sphinx has a jutting chin conspicuously absent on all the members of that family (whose images survive) from Sneferu on down.
...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!
...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???
.........The British Wax Museum would say its really Darwin?
.........Maybe,.....it's 'Job' himself.
Perhaps he should just borrow my very own "Theory of the Brontasaurus."
is that as in "solv-ed" by Inspector Clouseau?
(sorry, I couldn't help myself...)
[ping, with a reprise clipped from one of my replies in another topic]
In "COUNTING THE STONES: How Many Blocks in Khufu's Great Pyramid?" by Anthony Sakovich, KMT A MODERN JOURNAL OF ANCIENT EGYPT, VOLUME 13, Number 3, FALL 2002, a number of approximately 4 million is given for the number of stones in the Khufu pyramid. The largest stones are some of the corbels, the rest vary a great deal in size. The most common size runs about 2 tons.
Contrast this to Zahi Hawass, who claimed a few years ago that 2.3 million (the commonly used figure for the number of stones) was far too HIGH, and that the average weight of the stones was around 1000 pounds, or even less.
See, I told you Yu-Gi-Oh was real.
Bush's Fault!
Bump
None of these pharoahs built it anymore than Donald TRump built the Trump Towers.
They may have caused it to be built, but it was the Egyptian architects and slaves who built it.
Is there really such a displince as Egyptologist and who would trust a French one?
Yes, I know some make claims that there is.
Mark for later reading.
Drum Roll......
Sphynxters.
