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The True Age of the Sphinx

Date Submitted: 05/02/2004 14:17:13
Category: / History
Length: 1 pages (245 words)
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The Sphinx The Sphinx is 250 long and 60 ft high. Egyptologist's believed that the Sphinx was built in 2500 BC in the time of the pharaoh Chephren, but recent findings by John Anthony West suggest that there are water erosions unlike any other marks found on other Giza monuments. Unlike sand and wind erosions, which produce horizontal marks, West found that the erosion marks on the Sphinx were vertical...like those associated by water, but unlike the …

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…pretty sure how the Sphinx was built: At first they built the head. Then they built the body. To build the body they moved huge Blocks. That’s amazing that they could move blocks like this and that they could build monuments like the Sphinx and the pyramids. As time went by the body of the sphinx rain eroded the body of the Sphinx. Later wind eroded the Sphinx. They renovated the Sphinx several times.

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