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Whilst reading this article I noticed a picture of Robert Temple in a space in the Sphinx
which I recognised from one of our nocturnal visits along with Nick.
We also spent time in another located just behind the 'dream stela.... http://www.ancient-code.com/the-entranc ... x-of-giza/
"The Salvation of Mankind lies in making everything the responsibility of All"
Sophocles.
The entrance in that picture is on the left hand side at the back near the tail (as viewed from the front) and isn't very deep at all and usually full of litter.
Horus wrote:The entrance in that picture is on the left hand side at the back near the tail (as viewed from the front) and isn't very deep at all and usually full of litter.
Thank you very much for the wishes JL
As to the Sphinx, there is a lot of evidence to indicate that it may have had the head re-carved in antiquity, mainly because the body is out of proportion to the head.
A recent post by Frater got me thinking, the sphinx at Giza has the head of a pharaoh, not going to get into which man but it is a human head. The avenue of the sphinx at Karnak and Luxor have the...
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Oops...just realised.
Luxor temple sphinxes bear head of Nectanebo I (not II as erroneously stated above). Mea culpa.
I imagine the Sphinx enclosure is still prone to sand storms...but can't recall reading of any cleaning efforts on this scale :lol:
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Interesting old film clip, comparing it to the present day it would seem that those surrounding sand dunes were never really cleared away properly, so each year they would creep back towards the base...
I don't care with nobody says, the Sphinx is the least studied Ancient Monument in Egypt people pay more attention to the Pyramids then Sphinx, in my opinion . Which to me deepens the Mystery...
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Them Pyramids ( Pyra meaning fire and Mid meaning middle, in Greek ) did not serve just one function.
It is possible that the Sphinx will hold the key to unlocking something inside of the GP.
(that...
So here's a topic that I want to throw out there. It is my Theory that the Sphinx is not really Egyptian it was only adopted by them years later from a previous civilization.
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Anyhow we don't know who built the sphinx. So many theories yet no definitive.
On the erosion on the Sphinx. I'm wondering if the great flood did occur but not in a biblical sense but via the Ice...