Posted on 04/11/2024 1:18:01 PM PDT by logi_cal869
Hmmm...
Scratch that trip to Egypt from my bucket list...
“It’s ridiculous to claim it was formed by wind erosion.”
Not ridiculous at all. It’s a poorly written article. I don’t think they mean the head, paws, tail, etc. were carved by wind. Just the basic outline or shape. Which they refined and carved upon the existing rock formation.
Yeah-and Mount Rushmore was a natural formation, too!
And it was all done by guys wearing flip flops and gunny sacks. One thing that fascinates me is that no one has ever found any tools, copper or hi-tech. Whoever dun it took their tools with them-—or hocked them in a temple in Jerusalem?
It is truly a mystery.
EVERYONE knows these were ordered online and delivered by Amazon .
The Sphinx was carved / carved out in at least three separate periods of activity. Kudos to whomever added "yardang" to the keywords.
Made a symmetrical carving. No chance.
It sure doesn’t look like it comes from a ‘single’ rock.
Thanks all. :^)
All rocks are naturally formed, some wind up getting carved by humans. Often cemeteries are full of both of them. :^)
The original stone from which the head was carved had to protrude above the general landscape, and could have been shaped as yardangs are. As the geologist Robert Schoch noted, the temples in front of the Sphinx are made of large stones cut right out from around what is now the body of the Sphinx, so a hard no, the Sphinx as a whole was not formed as a yardang.
Even those who refuse to accept that the rock faces surrounding the body of the Sphinx were eroded by water (and yeah, it’s obvious) running down those faces understand the the body of the Sphinx was exposed by ancient human labor and not by wind and sand.
The bitter clingers to the wind-driven sand (or wind-driven wet sand, a sad attempt to ‘explain’ the later water erosion) are, thankfully, few in number.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4230570/posts?page=28#28
The rest of some associated keywords, sorted, duplicates out, chaff left in:
Additionally, the front legs and paws (and other parts of the body) are made of cut and set stone, so, again, not formed by wind and sand, even after the large stones were quarried out for those temples.
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