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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'.
