Origins of the Sphinx
Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization
Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. ; Robert Bauval
- New
- research
- and
- evidence
- that
- the
- Sphinx
- is
- thousands
- of
- years
- older
- than
- previously
- thought•
- Contrasts
- what
- Egyptologists
- claim
- about
- the
- Sphinx
- with
- historical
- accounts
- and
- new
- research
- including
- reanalysis
- of
- seismic
- studies
- and
- updates
- to
- Schoch’s
- water
- weathering
- research
- and
- Bauval’s
- Orion
- Correlation
- Theory•
- Examines
- how
- the
- Sphinx
- is
- contemporaneous
- with
- Göbekli
- Tepe,
- aligned
- with
- the
- constellation
- Leo,
- and
- was
- recarved
- during
- the
- Old
- Kingdom
- era
- of
- Egypt•
- Reveals
- that
- the
- Sphinx
- was
- built
- during
- the
- actual
- historical
- Golden
- Age
- of
- ancient
- Egypt,
- the
- period
- known
- in
- legend
- as
- Zep
- TepiNo
- other
- monument
- in
- the
- world
- evokes
- mystery
- like
- the
- Great
- Sphinx
- of
- Giza.
- It
- has
- survived
- the
- harsh
- climate
- of
- Egypt
- for
- thousands
- of
- years
- and
- will
- remain
- long
- after
- our
- own
- civilization
- is
- gone.
- According
- to
- orthodox
- Egyptology,
- the
- Sphinx
- was
- built
- around
- 2500
- BCE
- as
- a
- memorial
- to
- the
- pharaoh
- Khafre.
- Yet
- this
- “fact”
- has
- scant
- to
- no
- supportive
- evidence.
- When
- was
- the
- Sphinx
- really
- built
- and,
- most
- importantly,
- why?In
- this
- provocative
- collaboration
- from
- two
- Egyptology
- outsiders,
- Robert
- M.
- Schoch,
- Ph.D.,
- and
- Robert
- Bauval
- combine
- their
- decades
- of
- research
- to
- show
- how
- the
- Sphinx
- is
- thousands
- of
- years
- older
- than
- the
- conventional
- Egyptological
- timeline
- and
- was
- built
- by
- a
- long
- forgotten
- pre-Pharaonic
- civilization.
- They
- examine
- the
- known
- history
- of
- the
- Sphinx,
- contrasting
- what
- Egyptologists
- claim
- with
- prominent
- historical
- accounts
- and
- new
- research,
- including
- updates
- to
- Schoch’s
- geological
- water
- weathering
- research
- and
- reanalysis
- of
- seismic
- studies.
- Building
- on
- Bauval’s
- Orion
- Correlation
- Theory,
- they
- investigate
- the
- archaeoastronomical
- alignments
- of
- the
- monuments
- of
- the
- Giza
- Plateau
- and
- reveal
- how
- the
- pyramids
- and
- Sphinx
- were
- built
- to
- align
- with
- the
- constellations
- of
- Orion
- and
- Leo.
- Analyzing
- the
- evidence
- for
- a
- significantly
- older
- construction
- phase
- at
- Giza
- and
- the
- restoration
- and
- recarving
- of
- the
- Sphinx
- during
- the
- Old
- Kingdom
- era,
- they
- assert
- that
- the
- Sphinx
- was
- first
- built
- by
- an
- advanced
- pre-Pharaonic
- civilization
- that
- existed
- circa
- 12,000
- years
- ago
- on
- the
- Giza
- Plateau,
- contemporaneous
- with
- the
- sophisticated
- Göbekli
- Tepe
- complex.The
- authors
- examine
- how
- the
- monuments
- at
- Giza
- memorialize
- Zep
- Tepi,
- the
- Golden
- Age
- of
- legend
- shown
- here
- to
- be
- an
- actual
- historical
- time
- period
- from
- roughly
- 10,500
- BCE
- through
- 9700
- BCE.
- Moving
- us
- closer
- to
- an
- understanding
- of
- the
- true
- age
- and
- purpose
- of
- the
- Great
- Sphinx,
- Schoch
- and
- Bauval
- provide
- evidence
- of
- an
- early
- high
- civilization
- witnessed
- by
- the
- Great
- Sphinx
- before
- the
- end
- of
- the
- last
- ice age.
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