In the Egyptian Museum there is a stela called the "Inventory Stela", which proves that Cheops saw the sphinx and it also mentions that lightening struck the tail of the nemes headdress of the sphinx and destroyed it. To the south the lightening also burnt a sycamore tree. The area between the sphinx and the tree is empty today (I believe this is where a second sphinx lays buried), it could have also been struck by the same lightening causing it great destruction.
Well....um.... first off, The Club and its president Zahi Hawass will hang him out to dry because they have convinced themselves that the Inventory Stele is a fraud.
I think that is too glib an explanation BUT...if it is real it also says that Khufu did not build the Pyramid but rather restored it. If he's going to use the stele he can't pick and choose what parts of it to take.
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It's not impossible for two outcrops of rock to be just where they are wanted of course, but robbing existing structures of their building stone for other uses is a well established idea, and if a second sphinx was a construct it would have been a very handy source of supply.
First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt
Digit wrote:It's not impossible for two outcrops of rock to be just where they are wanted of course, but robbing existing structures of their building stone for other uses is a well established idea, and if a second sphinx was a construct it would have been a very handy source of supply.
Yep.
The outer layer of the pyramid of Khafre – the second largest pyramid in Giza – was used as building material for the citadel walls of Cairo, constructed in the 10th century. And you can still clearly see it, as they left the very top of that layer in place:
The citadel walls were apparently finished, and they didn't need any more building material . . .
Just imagine: the mere outer shell of one of the great pyramids provided more than enough building material to build impressive citadel walls around the most powerful city in the world (of its era)!
Bab Zuweila, one of the gates in old Cairo's citadel wall.
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I have a vague recollection that most of the outer casing stones fell down during an earthquake.
I may have to go looking for a reference for that.
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.
Some time around 800 AD there was an earthquake in Cairo, which dislodged the outer casing stones. The volume of casing stones was such that they were used to build mosques in the city of Cairo.
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.
