THe new Nile alluvial findings support the generally unaccepted sphinx water erosion hypothesis. But then paradigm shifts are always difficult to contemplate.Grin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_water_erosion_hypothesis
There's a spot in one of the corners of the Sphinx enclosure that looks like water poured over it in a concentrated stream. That's not from the river, as the Giza plateau was chosen precisely because it remains above the Nile flood level. It's runoff from the rains off the plateau. The rest of the wall surfaces in the enclosure, plus the original temple walls, show the same rain-induced erosion.
Nothing combative or prejudicial in that wiki-wacky page:
...attributing their creation to Plato's lost civilization of Atlantis over 11,500 years ago.
That's the kind of ****ing by association that was done during the AAAS show trial.