JAW is primarily responsible for reviving the observation that the Great Sphinx at Giza and its enclosure are marked by rain-induced erosion.
JAW is primarily responsible for reviving the observation that the Great Sphinx at Giza and its enclosure are marked by rain-induced erosion.
He’s 85. How did that happen? Where did the time go?
It’s the people who buck the system who unlock the doors.
Built 10,000 years ago.
There’s some guy who claims that the walls of the dug out portion of the Sphinx complex were used in construction of the temple dedicated to a pyramid builder and therefore can’t be from really really ancient erosion.
Occurs to me that both ideas can be true. Didn’t the Egyptians often re-purpose tombs and temples. If I am a Pharoah and can simply write my name and place my statues all over an abandoned temple, I’d go for it.
I still have problems with the placement of the Sphinx in relation to the pyramids. The bend in the ceremonial boulevard doesn’t make architectural sense if you are going to build both structures according to some master plan.
But if you were going to build a crouching lion statue facing East multi-thousand years ago to honor the crouching lion constellation Leo, you might put it there. As a matter of fact, one image of the crouching lion constellation looks mighty like the Sphinx lion body before some idiot tried to put that tiny Pharoah’s head on it.
