Don Barone Wrote:
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> Interesting articles.

Glad you found the time to read them.

> However there is a lot of this ...
>
> >The Sphinx is carved from the same quarry as
> the core blocks in the two lower Khafre temples.
>
> >The Sphinx Temple was built using blocks from
> the Member II layer of the Sphinx quarry.
>
> >The core blocks of the Sphinx Temple are
> matched geologically and archaeologically to the
> lower layers of Member II of the Sphinx quarry,
> indicating that the Sphinx lower body and Sphinx
> Temple were part of the same quarry-construction
> sequence.
>
> But no references. If all this is true then I am
> incredulous that Robert Schoch and other
> geologisits would even dare question the dating so
> may I ask where this cross referencing of core
> blocks with the quarry is situated that I might
> read from the source and ask Robert Schoch to do
> the same.

As I understand the situation, Schoch apparently agrees with the view that the Sphinx temple is made from the rock carved out of the sphinx enclosure; he dates the Sphinx temple to the predynastic, too.

>I really don't think I am trolling nor do I feel I am "Ignorant and arrogant" and am somewhat surprised these quotes were allowed to stand.

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