<HTML>Unfortunately, most of the sources I could give you to the climate are in German. As I said: Brunner-Traut. But it is brief mentioned in Paul Jordans "Riddel of the Sphinx", p. 147 too (suggesting a drier climate from 2300 BCE on).
And on p. 150:"Dr. Schoch noted (in his firlst KMT article, FD) that there is some evidence for a periode of heavier (if sporadic) rains between about 4000 BCE and 3000 BCE and that, as we have seen, even in Old Kingdom times until about 2300 BCE conditions were less arid in Egypt than they have been since; ..."
So even Schoch himself was aware that the climate before and after 2300 BCE are not linear, so that his "let's make a cut and project it back" calculation MUST be wrong.
Further on p. 153: "The first reply in the pages of KMT to Dr. Schochs theory came not from an Egyptologist, but from a professor of geology, Professor James A. Harrell ... He emphasized that, while weathering patterns manifested at the Sphinx can indeed be produced by rainfall, they can also result from periodic wetting not in the form but rather in the form of a saturated sand cover. ... Dr. Harrell suggested that in the past the wetting of the sand could also have been caused by rainfall in the wetter days of the Old Kingdom (until about 2300 BCE) or by river floodwater. ... The Old Kingdom tombs which Dr. Schoch said belonged to the same Strata as the Sphinx and yet were differently weathered were, Dr. Harrell emphasized, higher - and consequently drier - up on the Giza Plateau, away from the Nile flood or frum burial in rain-wetted sand. Down in the Sphinx enclosure and on the terrace where the temple stood, the limestone could have stayed wet for months at a time after heavy rain or flooding, and with nightly condensation to top up the water content. ..."
On the following pages the discussion between Schoch, Harell, Lehner and Gauri is summarized...
And to the bbc-production: I know of no supporting Schoch there. Maybe Chris Hale has better knowledge about???
>>Well, that's what everyone says. According to this it all were scepticals constructing tghe most funny things.
>I'm not so interested in this. The science interests me here...
Well, but you brought it up :-)
I have no discussion about the Sphinx on my home page, but my friend and colleague Rainer Lorenz has a most extraordinary one. Unfortunately in German only: [
www.benben.de], there on "Alternativ"
FD :-)</HTML>
