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Dark Jedi · 12-03-2002, 04:16 PM

I watched a documentary a while back on the Sphynx. I was curious as to the water damage it seemed to have suffered. It indicated pretty substantial rainfall during that period.

Have there been any independant discoveries of a non-arid time in that region?

Kosh · 12-03-2002, 05:48 PM

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<strong>I watched a documentary a while back on the Sphynx. I was curious as to the water damage it seemed to have suffered. It indicated pretty substantial rainfall during that period.

Have there been any independant discoveries of a non-arid time in that region?</strong>

I don't think there's a controversy over a non-arid time period. That would be about 10,000 years ago, and this why Schoch dates it to 10,000. The controversy, IIRC, is over the interpretation of that weathering and whether it indeed is from the much wetter period.

<a href="http://www.mm2000.nu/sphinx.html" target="_blank">The Sphinx Group</a>

Marduk · 12-04-2002, 08:29 AM

It was more like 7000 years ago, I remember Schoch balked at the idea that the Sphynx was much more than 2000 years older than thought, as John West wants to believe. Tradition has it the Sphynx is the same age as the Giza Pyramids 4700 years old.

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Dark Jedi · 12-04-2002, 10:34 PM

Thanks mucho, folks.

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Marduk Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: the 10th planet Posts: 5,065	It was more like 7000 years ago, I remember Schoch balked at the idea that the Sphynx was much more than 2000 years older than thought, as John West wants to believe. Tradition has it the Sphynx is the same age as the Giza Pyramids 4700 years old. [ December 04, 2002: Message edited by: marduck ]</p>

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