Posted on 01/16/2019 4:41:16 AM PST by vannrox
Here below is an aerial photograph of the great Sphinx. It is worth noting that aerial photography in the area is restricted. If you look at the top of the head you will note a round lighter coloured patch. It looks like it has been altered
In 1914, newspapers around the world reported his findings, including a temple of the Sun and also the sarcophagus of the first Pharaoh #Menes. These findings have now been erased from history books and Egyptian authorities deny the Sphinx chambers' existence.
A separate scientific update states that 260 cubic metres of water are being pumped out every hour through drainage tubes. That’s 6,240 cubic metres or 6,240,000 litres of water per day. An Olympic swimming pool has 2,500,000 litres. In short, water of a quantity equal to almost three Olympic swimming pools is pumped away on a daily basis from underneath the Sphinx!
“Professor G. A. Reisner of Harvard University, who has been making a scientific examination of that mysterious Egyptian monument known as the Sphinx, has made several notable discoveries, which it is hoped will contribute materially towards the elucidation of a problem that has puzzled the ages. “Inside the Sphinx he found a temple dedicated to the sun.
It is older than any of the pyramids and its date is somewhere about 6,000 BC, the most ancient in Egyptian history. Mena, or Menes as his name is sometimes spelled, was the first king of Egypt of whom modern scientists have discovered historic record.
Recent video coverage of a side door on the body near the paw was found to descend to a pool of water several stories down. I think it was on one of the Egyptology shows with that young Egyptian archaeologist on Ancient Aliens.
I don’t think the pool has been plumbed yet.
My choice is lion for apparent reasonns in construction of the body and paws. Situated and Faced toward Leo some thousands of years ago according to one astronomer’s calculations.
No one wants to admit that we are not the smartest creatures ever to inhabit the earth.
There's a New Kingdom-era shaft somewhere between the Sphinx and the river (if memory serves) that was found and excavated in the last ten years or so, turned out to be a shrine to Osiris, something like that. Has to be kept pumped out because of the water table. Campbell's tomb (shown on the line drawing up there) is a New Kingdom-era shaft up[ behind the Sphinx (w of the enclosure) and that doesn't "probably serve as light and air shaft to subterranean passages" as the caption says, it's been excavated (by someone named Campbell) right to the bottom, it contained a number of NK burials.
“My choice is lion for apparent reasons in construction of the body and paws.”
I agree and think you are right, An ungulate would never lay like that on it’s chest front legs stretched out forward. That is a predatory or guarding Cat and Dog profile. An ungulate would curl it’s legs under and lay on it’s side.
But the same concept was also applied to the premise that it might be a Bull. They propose it is even much older than assumed and once aligned with Taurus.
But my curiosity would be... While modern scientists are using Leo and Taurus as cosmology references, were the more modern Leo and Taurus even recognized constellations to the very ancient Egyptians?
Do we even know this for sure? What if to the very ancient Egyptians those particular Constellations were actually a Monkey and a Lizard instead, and there are no relations at all to the why they made the Sphinx as they did.
Meaning both applied assumptions above could be wrong and there might be some other influence involved for the Sphinx that needs to be explored... :)
Interesting!
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