[poinq]

Nope, not even close, its about 3000 years old.

[Fresh Wind]

Nope, not even close, its about 3000 years old.

Who told you that? Even establishment Egyptologists say 4,500 years.

[Flick Lives]

The Sphinx might be over 8,000 years old based on the evidence of water erosion pushing its age back to a wet period in Egypt some 14,000 years ago. It was also possibly re-carved over its lifetime, starting out as a statue of the god Anubis. Scale-wise, the current head of the Sphinx is small for the body.

[ckilmer]

I buy the arguement that the sphinx is pre dynastic egyptian because of the water erosion around the edges of the pit. But that still only puts it in the 3000-4000 BC range because the rains didn’t stop in the sahara until about 3500 BC. Prior to that the whole area was a green savannah—with some huge lakes dotting much of north africa. This transition from wet to dry about 3500 BC is pretty well documented. It happened over the course of only about 100 years. Its thought that the trade winds shifted south about that time.

Anyhow, after 3500 BC there wouldn’t be any rain to cause the erosion in the pit around the sphinx. Hence the dating for the sphinx would be prior to roughly 3500 BC.

[Jimmy Valentine]

The issue of the damage from rain water is interesting. Also it is conceivable that the Sphinx was recut to its current form at some ancient times. But 800k?