Sphinx Water Erosion Evidence Implies Pre-Dynastic Subterranean Construction
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Robert Schoch (Boston University, geologist) identified rainfall erosion patterns on the Sphinx enclosure walls requiring thousands of years of heavy precipitation — consistent with the African Humid Period (11,000-5,000 years ago) but not with the arid conditions of the Old Kingdom (2686-2160 BCE). Schoch dates the Sphinx core body to approximately 10,000 BCE. The Sphinx was carved FROM the bedrock — the same Mokattam limestone bedrock that the Subterranean Chamber is carved INTO. If the bedrock was being worked at the surface (Sphinx quarry) during the AHP, the subterranean structures may have been excavated during the same period. This would mean the Subterranean Chamber, Descending Passage, and possibly the Ascending Passage were built during the wettest period in 100,000 years — when the water table was at its highest and the hydraulic system would have maximum power. The Old Kingdom pharaohs (Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure) may have inherited a functioning underground acoustic engine and added the above-ground pyramid superstructure to an existing device. This remains controversial — mainstream Egyptology dates all structures to the Old Kingdom.
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