Hermione Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
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>
> ...
>
> > 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.
>
> Well ... if the Great Sphinx is an augmented
> yardang whose artificial features have largely
> survived over 4,500 years; and if the supposed
> second sphinx was also a yardang (with
> artificially incised features), then why wouldn't
> the features of that second sphinx also have
> survived ... ?


..AAAAHHH artistic license? Maybe they took an Atlantean statue and carved it to look like a Yardang!