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New Dating of the Great Sphinx
Ancient Architects You Tube ^ | May 30, 2018 | Colin Reader

Posted on 06/03/2018 9:53:27 AM PDT by wildbill

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To: Ticonderoga34

Thanks.


21 posted on 06/03/2018 12:23:54 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Jack Hammer

Maybe the head was there first. And, much later when the area was used to quarry stone, the workmen said “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to put a body on this thing!”


22 posted on 06/03/2018 12:36:40 PM PDT by myerson
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To: PIF

Fascinating. I’m hoping to get that book for father’s day.


23 posted on 06/03/2018 1:17:47 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2
Some links to Temple's sites and books:
The Sphinx Mystery
The Crystal Sun (the use of optically ground crystals lenses in the ancient world)
The Egyptian Dawn

Another interesting author is Chis Dunn who looks at the whole of ancient Egypt from an engineering, manufacturing and fabrication view point
Giza Power
Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs

24 posted on 06/03/2018 2:01:10 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Thanks.


25 posted on 06/03/2018 2:03:29 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Flick Lives

I prefer the lion theory because the back of the statue looks more like a lion that the traditional representation of Anubis. One of the theorists also notes that the statue, if it was actually done many thousands of years before the pharaohs built the pyradmids, would have been looking at the Sun during the day and the stars in Leo at night.

Either one is more likely than a small head pharaoh imho.


26 posted on 06/03/2018 4:11:06 PM PDT by wildbill (Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?)
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To: wildbill

One of the theorists also notes that the statue, if it was actually done many thousands of years before the pharaohs built the pyradmids, would have been looking at the Sun during the day and the stars in Leo at night.

Interesting. Those old Egyptians were tuned into a lot of natural phenomenon, so orienting the statue of a lion to look at the constellation of Leo makes sense.


27 posted on 06/03/2018 5:57:13 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: Grimmy
I was reading about the Sphinx.

Supposedly, its name comes from the root of the word to squeeze, or choke.

As in sphincter.

Like the anal sphincter.

One theory is that if you could not answer the "Riddle Of the Sphinx", that it would choke you to death.

FWIW.

28 posted on 06/03/2018 7:30:15 PM PDT by boop ("I said give me the brandy!")
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To: wildbill

keeping in mind what we know about Gobekli Tepes, a date of 10,500 BC doesn’t seem far-fetched


29 posted on 06/03/2018 11:03:58 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: wildbill
I prefer the lion theory because the back of the statue looks more like a lion
Lion backs arch steeply toward the head and lions have deep broad chests, neither of which correspond to the Sphinx's flat back and narrow chest. Both the flat back and narrow chest are canine characteristics.


4th Dynasty lion


Anubis as an Egyptian Jackal. A statue of Anubis found in the so-called treasury of the tomb of Tutankhamun

Sphinx in 3/4 side view

30 posted on 06/04/2018 1:57:44 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Note: this topic is from 6/03/2018. Thanks wildbill.
[snip] Minerva July-Aug 2000 had article containing abstracts of papers given at the Egyptian conference back in late March/early April. Check out this:
The so-called Dream Stela of Tuthmosis IV does not mention that the Great Sphinx was created by Khafre (Chephren), but the older stela of Amenhotep II mentions both Khufu and Khafre. It is located within the quarries of Khufu. Since the causeway of Khafre runs slightly to the southeast, rather than straight to the east, and since his valley temple lies beyond the axis of his pyramid complex, also toward the southeast, it is suggested that it was to avoid something important that already stood there -- the Great Sphinx. The features also point to Khufu -- the square face and broad chin, the pleated nemes without a band, the wide open eyes and large ears, and the fact the statue was beardless in the Old Kingdom. -- Rainer Stadelmann, "The Great Sphinx of Giza -- A Creation of Khufu/Cheops"
Another abstract on the same page (42) pertains to some of the tomb items from Tutankhamun -- these items had been made for Smenkhkare, Tut's immediate predecessor, which is difficult to explain to Christine Mahdi et al, who claim that Smenkhkare was none other than Nefertiti, on the flimsiest basis possible. Sorry, no website. In fact, the only magazine-related email address I found was on Compuserve. [/snip]

31 posted on 10/01/2018 11:44:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Swordmaker
Thanks Swordmaker, missed your ping!

32 posted on 10/01/2018 11:47:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Flick Lives

“phenomenon, so orienting the statue of a lion to look at the constellation of Leo makes sense.”

Timing fits the Ages of Man dictated by the astrological sign associated with sunrise on March 21st, Spring equinox. Precession of the equinox cycle of ~26,000 years divided by 12 zodiac signs = ~2,150 years per Age. We are nearing the Age of Aquarius, though we sung about it when I was a teenager!


33 posted on 10/02/2018 12:10:40 AM PDT by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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Nice — Minerva back issues appear to be available online!

http://minervamagazine.co.uk/archive_pdfs/2000_Vol_11_04.pdf


34 posted on 10/03/2018 12:44:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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