I started to bring up Schoch but not surprisingly he has fallen into disrepute somewhat. I really laughed, early on in his career, he took pictures of the deep erosion around the Sphinx, didn't reveal the location, and presented the pics to one of the world's leading geologists, complaining that people were arguing with him that the erosion was caused by a rising river for a time. The 'expert' laughed and said they were idiots, that a school kid could tell they were the results of many years of heavy rainfall.
Robert Schoch published his letter as authoritative that the Giza Plateau had to have been subject to heavy annual downpours - proving that the Sphinx was standing about 8,000 BCE when north Africa was subject to a much wetter climate.
I doubt the world expert ever forgave Schoch for trapping him in such a controversy. 😂
I have seen a well conceived documentary some years ago about how the original Sphinx figure had a larger head, likely of Anubis (?). After much erosion over centuries, with severe damage, the head was re-carved as a Pharoah's head. Of course one of the Sphinx's legs was repaired by one of the Fourth Dynasty Pharoahs, and a placard placed between his paws.
Napoleon and his crew shot the Sphinx's nose off.
Sir Flinders Petrie knew a lot more about Pharoahnic Egypt than he would tell, afraid that he would lose authoritative credibility. Tell your wife to visit his museum in London - or on line - where he shows evidence of advanced tooling for cutting and shaping stone - many other curious and unexplained anomalies of Egypt.
The Sphjinx head was a lion and it lined up perfectly to the constellation of Leo when built. The Age of Leo lasted from approximately 10,900 BC to 8,740 BC.
I’ll break her in easy on the perfectly honed tombs in Valley of the Kings.