[BGHater]

Note. Edited title to fit into header. Correct title:

'How the Great Sphinx of Giza may have started out with the face of a lion thousands of years before the pyramids were built'

[BGHater]

Mega kitty ping.

[arrogantsob]

Others have made the same claim about the age and there is no doubt that it has been covered and uncovered by the sands several times. Didn’t Cheops have it speak to him in a dream urging him to uncover it?

[Young Werther]

...and Napolean’s Army gave it a nose job!

[muawiyah]

Lots of theories. The records left by the Egyptians themselves suggest the Sphinx, exclusive of the head, was carved out of the limestone as large blocks were cut for building the Pyramids.

The head is vastly older having stood up like a mushroom above the then surface.

It's even painted with red stripes and white dots like an amanita muscaria which points to its existence in an earlier and colder period of time.

[IYAS9YAS]

I would beleive that - given the scale of the human head to the body. I saw a program more than 10 years ago that posited this.

[Islander7]

GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE PERTAINING TO THE AGE OF THE GREAT SPHINX

by Dr. Robert M. Schoch © 1999-2000

ABSTRACT

Many recent Egyptologists have attributed the carving of the Great Sphinx of Giza to the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Khafre (Chephren), ca. 2500 B.C. However, on the basis of a number of lines of geological, seismological, Egyptological, and related evidence, I have come to the conclusion that the structure commonly known as the Great Sphinx was built in stages (originally it may not have even been a Sphinx). Initial carving of the core body of the Sphinx is estimated to have taken place during the period of approximately 7,000 to 5,000 B.C. The Sphinx has subsequently been reworked and refurbished many times over the succeeding millennia ‑‑ including, probably, during the reign of Khafre. In particular, the rump or rear of the Sphinx was carved out or recarved much later than the core body, and the head of the Sphinx has been recarved.

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SUMMARY OF GEOLOGICAL AND FIELD EVIDENCE BEARING ON THE AGE OF THE SPHINX

Major geological and field evidence bearing on the age of the Great Sphinx is summarized in this section. I have divided this evidence into four main categories:

1) Weathering Patterns,
2) Two-Stage Construction of the Sphinx and Valley Temples,
3) Ancient Repair Campaigns to the Body of the Sphinx, and
4) Seismic Surveys of the Sphinx Area.

Weathering Patterns

Modifications to rock surfaces, such as those resulting from weathering, erosion, and paleosol development, have long been utilized as criteria in determining the relative times since fresh rock surfaces were first exposed to the elements (see, for example, Brookes, 1985; Coates, 1984; Evans, 1985; Finkl, 1984; and Vreeken, 1984). Such methodologies have been widely used to date Quaternary land surfaces in particular, but the same concepts can also be applied to other dating problems -- such as the age of the initial carving of the Sphinx relative to other cultural features found on the Giza Plateau.

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Long, well researched and documented paper from a geologist's point of view. Interesting read for sure.

[pabianice]

[BenLurkin]

[50sDad]

This is mearly a revisionist historian attack on women!

[KevinDavis]

Call me crazy.. When I was a kid I thought that was George Washington..

[RightWhale]

For a long time have thought the original head was of a lion. The present head is about half the proportionate size compared to the body, and the back of the neck has clearly been chopped away to fit the head, but the fair line was broken. The original geological formation was a yarddang, fairly common in the region.

[Daffynition]

Fugetaboutit. It was a shoe.

[SunkenCiv]

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[null and void]

Naaaah.

Originally it had the face of 0bama.

Then the builders realized he's not a sphinx he's a sphincter, ...

[SunkenCiv]

Giza pics:

http://www.egyptarchive.co.uk/html/plateau/plateau_09.html

I used one here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1442529/posts?page=25#25

[RichInOC]

The Egyptian Kitty Frowns Upon Your Shenanigans.

(Egyptian Kitties...In WAY Before The ZOT.)

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

The Sphinx was once lion-headed? Nah, the pharaoh it represents was always a pinhead. And nobody wanted to go to the awful trouble of whittling down the body to match the head, in all those centuries — there’s the real mystery.

[MHGinTN]

Schoch and West convinced me long ago that the Sphinx was first a lion in an African empire, then recarved head under another, different national leader of Egypt thousands of years later. They guess the age at 5 to 7,000 years when it was recarved! They based it on the erosion of the base having surface waters doing it so the Ice Age had to be source of such rains and running waters.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.guyandrodd.com/galleries/?g=fetishes&i=9