Hermione Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
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>
> >
> [wisdomofnations.com]
> >
> > Well some creative camera angles but what are
> we
> > actually looking at?
>
> Perhaps the thinking is that this supposed second
> sphinx was once a sphinx like the one we know, but
> it got eroded over the millennia (I've not looked
> at the arguments in any detail).
>
> Herodotus doesn't mention either the Great Sphinx
> or its putative sibling (but there's some
> discussion of possible reasons for this in this
> abstract:
> [unisapressjournals.co.za])
>
> Lehner and the Great Sphinx:
> [www.smithsonianmag.com]

Took a look at the location and its (with restricted camera lenses) of the place next to Queen Khentkawas tomb

[photos.wikimapia.org]

So it uses the cutting around QK to try and make an isolated yardang into a 'sphinx' as near I can tell the other side is not cut out.