{"id":504,"date":"2009-06-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radhikand.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/21\/sunday-spotlight-mystery-of-the-sphinx"},"modified":"2009-06-21T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T00:30:00","slug":"sunday-spotlight-mystery-of-the-sphinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/sunday-spotlight-mystery-of-the-sphinx\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Spotlight: Mystery of the Sphinx"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The documentary on YouTube:<\/div>\n
Part 1<\/a>, Part 2<\/a>, Part 3<\/a>, Part 4<\/a>, Part 5<\/a><\/div>\n
Part 6<\/a>, Part 7<\/a>, Part 8<\/a>, Part 9<\/a>, Part 10<\/a><\/div>\n
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Author and lecturer, John Anthony West<\/a> delivered a seismic shock to archaeology in the early 1990’s when he and Boston University geologist Robert Schoch<\/a> revealed that the Great Sphinx of Giza<\/a>, Egypt<\/a>, showed evidence of rainfall erosion. Such erosion could only mean that the Sphinx was carved during or before the rains that marked the transition of northern Africa<\/a> from the last Ice Age to the present interglacial epoch, a transition that occurred in the millennia from 10,000 to 5000 BC. The Emmy<\/a> award-winning documentary produced on this research, Mystery of the Sphinx, was released in 1993 and was a runaway success. I came across the same recently on YouTube and this blog entry is about some completely-radical-for-the-time facts that this documentary put forth and the active research that is still carried out regarding this theory today. <\/div>\n
Few of the discoveries and contentions in the said documentary that I found particularly interesting and were very shocking to the archaeological community at the time are,<\/div>\n