Ogygos Wrote:
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> Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > Maybe, just maybe, the Spinx is where it is
> > because that's where the yardang it's carved
> from
> > happened to be sitting.
>
> Yes but the issue is not just where the Sphinx is
> - if we consider it older than the pyramids - but
> rather where the pyramids were planned to be in
> regards to the sphinx.
>

to the best of my knowledge



The exact site of Khufu's pyramid was dictated by the Mound that it was built around.

Khafre's accomodates and compliment's the placement of Khufu's.

Menkaure's accomodates and compliments the placement of Both.

The Sphinx is on the same plateau. It's location might have been dictated by high quality Protruding Limestone from which it's head was sculpted. Imagine their horror when they realised that the layers below were of such poor quality. That might even be why they painted it red. The poor quality stone of the Shoulders and body are the single best evidence that the Sphinx was not a recarve of an earlier Lion form. No stonewoker in his right mind would have attempted such a recarve. And we know for a fact that the stoneworkers that built the pyramids and it's temples and statuary were Highly skilled and knowledgable.

WE know from the Nemes Headress that the Sphinx as we see it now was contemporary to the Old Kingdom.

The debate goes on as to the exact perameters of that timeframe

I personnaly lean to Khufu but allow for a range of Possibility from Khasekhemwy to Khafre


Warwick

" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
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significant than what we do know."

Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019