[blam]

I read a book review last night on a book you may like, it's Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders by Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. He's the geophysicist from Boston University who dated the weathering of the Sphinx to 10,000 years ago.

"A theory that ancient peoples may have migrated across vast distances in response to catastrophic encounters with comets. The possible existance of a lost pyramid-building civilization in the period before 3,500BC.

I'm thinking I'll buy it.

[RightWhale]

That's one book I will definitely look for. Might even ask the storeclerk about ordering it if Waldenbooks is a little slow putting it out on the shelves. They have several books on display now only because people like myself special ordered them. Popular books, too.

[ForOurFuture]

Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.

Isn't he one of the more prominent researchers in your field of interest (which is, judging by your fascinating posts, ancient archaeology/human history)? I recall him having some theory that Europeans were mining near the Great Lakes long before Columbus.

[MHGinTN]

Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. He's the geophysicist from Boston University who dated the weathering of the Sphinx to 10,000 years ago. Uh, dated to at least 10,000 years ago. The last time copious amounts of rain water fell on the giza palteau would have been approaching the end of the last ice age, and thus further back than the end. The position of constellation Leo on the pre-dawn horizon in front of/the direction of gaze for the sphinx (because of precession) is one of the more telling clues presented by John A. West, Schoch, and Bauval. I'm betting the sphinx was originally carved more than 10,000 years ago, then recarved by the Pharoah who's face/head appears on it now. West feels that the original head would have been a lion.