Does the Great Sphinx 'Water Erosion' Date to the 4th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt? | Ancient Architects
发布时间 2020-12-30 19:11:20 来源
摘要
The title of this video is going to frustrate a lot of people before I even start talking about the subject but please remember – if we want the truth, we need to scrutinise the popular alternative ideas as much as the mainstream view and when you do, you often find a number of problems that can bring down a hypothesis.
Before I make my long and detailed Sphinx Geology Part 2 video, I thought it would be a good idea to pluck one specific subject out and make it as a standalone video, because it provides very important information in our quest for the true history of the Giza Plateau, and asks some questions that are very hard to answer.
Firstly, and in a nutshell, even though many geologists completely disagree, in my opinion The Sphinx enclosure does shows signs of water erosion, but the debate by geologists and Egyptologists is whether or not this erosion is 7-10,000 years old, whether it’s pre-dynastic, early dynastic or if it is actually indicative that the Sphinx was carved in the 4th dynasty by Khufu, Djedefre or Khafre.
Now, the geological weathering and erosion at the Great Sphinx is a complex field of study. It isn’t as simple as wind and rain as is often presented. It’s dependent on the rock type, it’s dependent on the intense chemical weathering of the bedrock and natural fractures prior to the carving of the Sphinx, the upward wicking of salty groundwater before the Sphinx was carved, surface run-off, subsurface water flow and haloclasty, all of which are detailed in a recent video on the World of Antiquity channel, linked here: https://youtu.be/DaJWEjimeDM
Just because you see what could be water erosion at a specific location on the Sphinx enclosure doesn’t mean that’s hard evidence that the entire monument was affected by pre-Sahara rainfall. It just means there is one interpretation of the features we see.
When you look closely at the so called rainfall erosion, you can see that it's possible that there is a far more likely explanation and when you consider the topography of the Giza plateau, you can see that it is actually very unlikely that the so called rainfall erosion could have been done any time before the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre were built. Watch the video to learn more.
All images are taken from Google Images or belong to Jean Pierre Houdin and are used for educational purposes only. The website the images were taken from no longer exists.
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