You've probably read Colin Readers article on the Sphinx. He makes a very good argument that the causeway at Giza is as old as the Sphinx, meaning that the structure that leads to the pyramid - is older than the pyramid!!
I wonder what it was leading to, if not to Khafres' pyramid?
Perhaps it was still leading to "Khafre's pyramid"....and the whole complex is as old as the sphinx?
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Beags, I speak French (school) and Spanish (work), read German (genealogy) and converse in English on occasion (American English, that is). Oh yeah, I can swear a little in Hungarian too, thanks to grandma.
Let us not forget that the Inventory Stele says that Khufu "restored" part of the complex....not that he built it.
Of course, the Club spits bloody venom about the Inventory Stele...but suppose it is right and the Club is wrong?
One of the few written references to Khufu is contained in the 'inventory stele', discovered at Giza in the 1850s. It commemorates the restoration by Khufu of a small temple near the Pyramid, and indicates that the Sphinx, the Sphinx Temple, and possibly the Great Pyramid itself, were already in existence in Khufu's day. The stele is written in a later style of writing and some Egyptologists initially regarded it as a copy of a 4th dynasty original. Nowadays, however, it is dismissed as a piece of fiction as it contradicts current dogmas.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
You don't hear a lot about the Inventory Stele. In fact I never heard of it until I read FOTG. (I've read too much mainstream stuff). But, If the Stele had said the pyramid of Khufu and the Sphinx were both built at the same time by Cheops, then it would be in every article about Egyptology.
BTW, Schoch theorizes that several pyramids have been built over "existing structures"
But, If the Stele had said the pyramid of Khufu and the Sphinx were both built at the same time by Cheops, then it would be in every article about Egyptology.
I couldn't agree more.
Did you reach the part about the attribution of the Osirion to Seti I.
Another fine example of minimal evidence being required for Club-approved theories.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
BTW - there is a school of thought that thinks the Inventory stele was copied much later than the original papyrus it was written on. That would account for the more "modern" language that was used on it.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Oh, no....don't start the whole "Israel in Egypt" controversy again.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
