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"The Great Pyramid in front of Khafra's pyramid has become more controversial than ever in light of recent geological studies. Based on
severe manner in which blocks covering lower layers of body and paws are eroded, age of Sphinx has, once again, come into serious question.
Today, Sphinx is attributed to Khafra (Chephre in another language). Earlier Egyptologists believed it was erected a great deal earlier than his reign, perhaps at end of archaic period. The Sphinx looks much older than Pyramids.
No inscriptions connect sacred monument to Khafra (except reconstruction gangs graffiti), but in Valley Temple, a dozen statues of Khafra, one in form of a Sphinx, were uncovered in 1950's. Some Egyptologists claim a resemblance between these statues and face of Sphinx.
A document which indicates greater antiquity, however, was found on Giza Plateau by French Egyptologists during nineteenth century. The text, called 'Inventory Stele', bears inscriptions relating events during reign of Khafra's father, Khufu. The text says that Khufu instructed that a temple be erected alongside Sphinx, meaning that Sphinx already existed before Khafra's time. The accuracy of stele has been questioned because it dates from Twenty-first Dynasty (1070-945 BC.), long after Pyramid Age, but because Egyptians took great pride in precise record keeping {Well, let's say they were well aware of glory and posterity; they would also have known what happened in a time closer to their period of history, than Egyptologists today.} and careful copying of documents, no authoritative reason exists to discount text as inaccurate.
Fragments of early papyruses and tablets, as well as later writings of third century B.C. Greco-Egyptian historian {A priest} Manetho, claim that Egypt was ruled for thousands of years before First Dynasty, some texts claim as much as 36,000 years earlier. {A deep mine in Egypt is reported to have been dated to 35,000 BC. that came to light in last year or so.} This history is dismissed by Egyptologists as legend {Even though they use Manetho’s kings list extensively in their own fabrication.}. However, ancient Egyptian history is viewed by scholars mostly from a New Kingdom perspective because numerous documents have survived from Thebes. The capital of Memphis, founded during prehistoric times, was a vitally important religious, commercial, cultural and administrative center with a life span of thousands of years, but unfortunately, it has not been effectively excavated.
{Britannica tells us: "the excavations of Thomas W. Jacobsen at Franchithi Cave on Bay of Argos... by 13,000 - 11,000 B.C. and that cultivation of hybrid grains, domestication of animals, and organized community tuna hunts had already begun.” (13) This is in Crete where another major Keltic administrative colony existed, to go along with Malta and probably Byblos if not what is known as Harappa, and also Finias.}
The recent geological studies of Sphinx have kindled more than debate over attribution and age. The established history of evolution of civilization is being challenged.
A study of severe body erosion of Sphinx and hollow in which it is situated indicates that damaging agent was water. A slow erosion occurs in limestone when water is absorbed and reacts with salts in stone. The controversy arises over vast amounts of water responsible.
Two theories are popular. One is that groundwater slowly rose into body of Sphinx. This theory produces irreconcilable problems: A recent survey carried out by American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) determined that three distinctly separate repair operations were completed on Sphinx between New Kingdom and Ptolemaic rule, that is, during a period of roughly 700 to 1,000 years. The study also indicates that Sphinx was already in its current state of erosion when early repairs were made. No appreciable erosion has occurred since original damage, nor is there further damage on bedrock of surrounding hollow, an area that never underwent repair.
Knowing this, one must consider that inundating Nile slowly built up levels of silt over millenia, and this was accompanied by a gradual rise in water. During Khafra's time water table was about thirty feet lower than it is today. For rising groundwater theory to hold, an unbelievable geological scenario would have to have taken place. It would mean that from thirty feet lower than today's water table, water rose to about two feet into body of Sphinx and surrounding hollow, where it caused erosion for roughly 600 years, and then stopped its damaging effects.
Historians find second theory that is offered more unthinkable. It suggests that source of water stemmed from wet phases of last ice age--c.15,000 to 10,000 B.C.- when Egypt underwent periods of severe flooding. This hypothesis advocates that Sphinx necessarily existed before floods. If it could be proven, well-established theories about prehistory would be radically shaken. The world's most mysterious sculpture would date to a time when historians place humanity in a neolithic setting, living in open camps and depending largely on hunting and foraging." (14)
Thus Egyptians would have to give up their claim to having built it. This is their pride and joy and it is difficult to admit such a lie. The truth when one looks at all facts; is that there is no way Egyptians built Great Pyramid. If it was not Phoenicians then it was African cultures such as Timbuktu, who we know even less about. It is likely they and other people around world merely imitated it and its capstone which is older than its base (ARCE carbon, AMS, dating). The capstone may have been used as a model to demonstrate effects of two perfect tetrahedra in a perfect pyramid that generates 'phi' and kind of design that nautilus deep sea shell contains. These are not co-incidences and reflect on knowledge gained through attunements with spiritual things or 'direct cognition'. The only other possible explanation is alien theory or an advanced hominid that rose to our current level of technical understanding that went into space or somehow disappeared. Would they have gone to space like we can, and return for appropriate or unique resources needed from their evolutionary home? We must keep an open mind and not try to make facts force-fit easy theories. That approach is common in science and goes by names like 'reductivism', 'gradualism', and 'direct inference'.
Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest 'expert' at World-Mysteries.com
