The Great Sphinx of Egypt is one of the largest manmade sculptures in the world, measuring 240 feet long and 66 feet high and cut from the natural limestone bedrock. It has the body of a lion and head of a human, wearing the royal dynastic Egyptian headdress.

In the 1950s, alternative Egyptologist and mystic Rene Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz was the first to speculate that the body of the Sphinx to have been eroded by water.

Inspired by Schwaller’s ideas, in 1979, John Anthony West was the next to attribute the Sphinx erosion to water, claiming the statue was the handiwork of a lost ancient civilisation.

Around 10 years later, West sought the opinion of geologist Robert Schoch, who validated the claims from a scientific perspective, stating the Sphinx enclosure shows clear evidence of rain erosion, and therefore must have been created when Egypt was far wetter – which he believes was some time around 12,000 years ago, according to his website.

But as somebody with a background in Geology, with the more research I did, the more I started to notice holes in the Sphinx rain erosion hypothesis and so in the past few years I started to dig a little deeper. I found the work of Dr James Harrell, the work of geologist Colin Reader, analysis by geologist Jorn Christiansen, papers by K. Lal Gauri and now the recent presentations and website of geologist Robert Schneiker.

If you want to learn more, check out David Miano’s video on the World of Antiquity channel called Age of the Sphinx: Battle of the Geologists:    • The Age of the Sphinx | Battle of the...  

Physical observations in the field can have various interpretations, so it is difficult to really get clarity, but with regards to the age of the Sphinx, I think there is one piece of compelling evidence that is really hard to argue with, and that’s what I’m presenting in this video.

Geologist Robert Schneiker is the first person I’ve seen present this, but a new scientific study released August 29, 2022 backs it up. This evidence is the reason why I gave this video a somewhat definitive title: Why the Sphinx Can’t be Older than 3,500 BC because I can't find a way to refute it and that is the height of the Nile River during the African Humid Period, from 14,500 to 5,500 years ago and the fact the Sphinx is within the Nile floodplain. Watch this video to learn more.

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Sources:
Robert Schneiker Lecture:    • The Great Sphinx: From the Eocene to ...  
Randall Carlson on JRE:    • Joe Rogan Experience #961  Graham Ha...  
The Sphinx Erosion Debate: https://www.davidpbillington.net/sphi...
Late Quaternary history of the Nile: https://www.nature.com/articles/288050a0
Rob Schneiker website: http://www.robertschneiker.com/water%...
Robert Schoch website: https://www.robertschoch.com/sphinx.html
Geologist Talks THE SPHINX (feat. Robert Schneiker):    • Geologist Talks THE SPHINX (feat. Rob...  
The Oldest Records of the Nile Floods: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1796184
Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCE: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...

Music:
Ross Bugden Olympus (Copyright and Royalty Free):    • ♩♫ Epic and Dramatic Trailer Music ♪♬...  

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