Maybe the vertical lines are outlining claws on the southern paw, but they do not taper like they do on the northern paw. The bedrock on the southern paw is also a lot smaller, and the lines appear almost vertical, when they should be tapering to a point if they were to match the northern hind paw. Either way, it looks inconsistent and surely the detail would have eroded away as Member 1 is so well eroded around the enclosure? You tell me. I think the paws and claws carvings are later. Thanks for watching! Please Like the video if you enjoyed it and please subscribe! If you want to support the Ancient Architects channel, I’m on Patreon at www.patreon.com/ancientarchitects - thank you!

@74castaway

5 жыл бұрын

I have some pictures and lecture about the Sphinx which could interesting for your research, is there an email address where I can send them to you?

@AncientArchitects

5 жыл бұрын

cast away great, email ancientarchitectschannel@gmail.com - thank you!

@Rusty.Shackhouse

5 жыл бұрын

Those “paws” seem very small compared to how it looks now.

@Xandros999

5 жыл бұрын

Could the lines on the southern paw represent retracted claws? ​@@Rusty.Shackhouse The current paws are enormously disproportionate to the head though.

Just a wild guess: Maybe all of the Sphinx was covered by masonry at one point, until the Sphinx was partially covered by sand and people nearby started to use the easier accessible bricks and stones for building new structures, as people did in rome, e.g. with the Collosseum. Hence the upper part became a vicitim to wind and sand erosion while the lower part not only kept it's masonry but also was protected by the covering sand. This might have happened at any point in time. Also the very first Sphinx was possibly developed over centuries, if not millennia, as Göbekli Tepe apparently was, so maybe the northern and the southern paw represent very different states of the art, with centuries lying between them. What do we know about the basin in which the Sphinx is situated btw? Was it originally filled to the rim with limestone, or is it possible that there existed some kind of depression with a very prominent rock right at the start of the works, invoking associations with whatever kind of animal by nature? Because I must admit, that the rock with only a head in whichever shape doesn't look very convincing to me, it looks to assymmetrical, imbalanced even.

@starsnstrife

3 жыл бұрын

So fascinating that you folks can know so much about a structure like that. Vandalism, re-purposing things over the millennia all seem highly likely. Even that one Roman building with the open dome roof only was able to survive because it was used for different things over the millenia. It is consistent with our nature.

The sphinx could have been clad as the pyramids where, that could explain the difference on the weathering between the sphinx body and the enclosure. Just guessing... very nice videos, I'm totally addicted to the channel!

@technosaurus3805

5 жыл бұрын

A clay plaster mix is a likely candidate. Lime plaster was used on many of the temples for both painting and relief. Using a clay+plaster+sand mix would allow for proper coloring (by changing the ratios or types of clay or sand) as well as finer, easier detail work. They have already shown that the head previously contained pigments, so it wouldn't be surprising if this were the case.

@ProjectRedfoot

5 жыл бұрын

That is a good theory

@MrWizardofozzz

5 жыл бұрын

Le Germain Then you like being deceived, cause it was proven back in the 1970's that the pyramids and head of the sphinx are made from ancient concrete(geopolymer) and they are fully aware of it.. The sphinx is also not a lion, lions have a trademark tuft at the end of the tail and that is clearly not what we see..

@ianshears5341

5 жыл бұрын

WHY

@ianshears5341

5 жыл бұрын

W

Great video mate, it's great to have someone looking at Egyptian history with no bias or ideas that are non negotiable for change. Love your videos.

i hear an ancient cry, for 12 thousand years it has echoed across the desert , from Zep Tepi till now... "All hail the intermittently damp lumpy one !!!"

I like the way we’re coming along the journey of you own personal discovery in this subject. My favourite KZread channel at the moment ❤️

This gets more intriguing by the video. Thanks for your work on presenting a very interesting, but likely alternative to what we were taught in school.

Great video, Matt! I really like your humility mixed with an eagerness to unravel the mysteries. Too many people want to force their ideas. But, you admit you are willing to learn new things. Very refreshing! love everything you do! Keep it up!

Ok the sphinx has been "remodeled" throughout time. Going back hundreds, thousands, TENS OF THOUSANDS of years. It's a testament to how long we as a race have been wondering about it's TRUE origin. Great video...

Matt - the days that go by without a new video from you are slightly annoying for their absence. Conversely, a day with one of your well researched and thought provoking videos are just a bit more joyous. Thank you for your efforts and please continue!

I am a mason, and looking at this as someone who works with stone on a daily basis, i will give my idea on how you would build this. You would carve what you could from the existing rock, and then add stone where needed. So to say it is, or is not, carved out of the bedrock, you first have to decide how much of the bedrock has to be carved into the finished exterior to claim it is or isn't. They might have thought the whole thing could have been carved out of the bedrock, but then when they started to cut away at it they discovered sections that were cracked, striated, hollow, sandy, pockets of water, etc. As you work your way threw the bedrock your going to run into areas where the density and strength change, especially on a piece this large. I can order two pieces of lime stone from the same quarry on the same day taken from the same section, and the two piece are going to have different qualities. Every job starts with a plan, and every job ends with changes to the plans, that is just the nature of construction.

Great job intoducing different theories on the sphinx. I enjoyed hearing the different viewpoints. Great work.

Glad you have done so much research and have kept an open mind to new ideas.I think that the way you approach these different topics is refreshing at that when you have an open mind and proceed with objectivity that a person gains more information and discovers more. I agree with you that the age given to the sphinx is more to side with the Egyptilogical timeline and that the water erosion was caused from run off from the plateau. I'm very curious to know your thoughts on the different primordial mounds of creation and why they were so important to the Egyptians.I feel like your channel has helped to inspire me to do more research and has created more of an interest into ancient history.I appreciate your humble attitude toward discovery and finding answers to questions about our past.Truly eye opening and I'm amazed at how many videos you can produce so quickly and effeciently.Thank You for your work .I think many people would benefit from having your attitude towards gathering answers and understanding towards our past.I truly believe that your attitude will help others to become more understanding and to inspire others to seek more evidence and understanding when it comes to our history as a people.

You bring a lot to the table! Thanks mate, love the discussions and posits!

I love how you divide between the Sphinx's Age's question, and the Sphinx's Lion or Other question ;) PS. I'm pretty sure that in the Catholic preschool where I had been going to, during writing 'lesson' we have been tought that questionmark is simplified ear, and that it derivated from Eyptian wirting system.

@sun73ny

5 жыл бұрын

This just blew my mind.

I just want to say that I've always thought that Sphinx was a modified quarry, just like you mentioned in your last video.

@AncientArchitects

5 жыл бұрын

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I like the idea that the sphinx was just an unusually shaped rock outcrop that subsequent generations of Egypt dwellers occasionally got creative with -- carving a head on it now, and maybe re-carving it again later, and sometimes digging down to quarry stone another time, yet again saying, "Why not make it look more like a lion-man by putting some fancy stone work round the base for feet & tail?" Fantastic work, AA -- you're the best!

Hey, thank you for all your great work. Your time is appreciated.

again very good points ! I like your way of thinking it is mindblowing ! keep up this great work!

Hey mate, just wanted to say : I love your content, always enjoy it! And I especially like your integrity (which you just proven you have) by trying your best not to be in an echo chamber just getting the info you want rather than the info you need! Although I was really into the rain erosion idea, what you brought up today makes too much sense to be just ignore out of spite or ego... Let's try and get more info so we can advance towards a definitive answer! ✌ Peace from France man! 🍻 PS : I also love your other channel! Are you gonna talk about the first ever picture of an hypermassive black hole released during the day? I'd love to get your take on it!

Thank you for your videos . I just do not know what to think about this . There has been so much restoration on the Sphinx .

cool! I was always wondering if there had been carved claws.....thank you so much for presenting the evidence-that is why i am on your channel,you got the passion man

I love it when I get notified while I'm on my phone

@AncientArchitects

5 жыл бұрын

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Blown away again! Wow, there is a claw. All this public thinking out loud that you do is really bringing up some great info!

with the power of logic and science, you are the best, no agenda, no bullshit. love it

Hey, I wish I wasn't so late to the last recent update and theory videos. Real busy. Can't wait to hear what this follow up says!

@AncientArchitects

5 жыл бұрын

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In most comments no one mentioned the sphinx temple which was made from stone blocks taken from around the sphinx. It's proven geologically that those blocks for the temple were carved out from the sphinx enclosure. So when I was watching one of Brien Foerster's video of the sphinx temple tour, it looked like the original blocks, which were taken from around the sphinx, were way too much eroded and restoration blocks were added in front of them by the dynastic Egyptians. So in my view the sphinx temple was built very early since the original blocks were badly eroded, implicating that the sphinx enclosure was also carved quite early, and after carving out enough blocks, the sphinx mound must've had remained which might've been converted into the sphinx later. Just a guess.

What a wild ride has been following you on this journey do you understand and I sucked the history of this amazing Monument. I had no idea there was so much discrepancy regarding this matter. Thank you for doing all of this amazing and difficult work.

Finally I'm early haha! 😂🤣 Are the walls around the pyramid also eroded like the Sphinx? I can't remember if it was a Brian Foerster video that showed erosion from the walls that surround the pyramid 😣

@AncientArchitects

5 жыл бұрын

I did a video on the erosion around the Khafre pyramid enclosure, but this has evidence of being lined with a hard clay like substance, which would have halted the erosion. But it is heavily eroded underneath.

great job digging up those cool old pics

I really Like your Style of Analytics and your mind Set Please continue making These videos

Good point about making the monument smaller, they probably could not make it any smaller if indeed passages were all through the inner body. Thank you for your research

The Sphinx was there before the Egyptians. It was repaired several times.

@alexstewart9747

5 жыл бұрын

Doc Zoidberg - I concur

@umi415

5 жыл бұрын

I believe this as well and the evidence of the extreme weathering goes in favor of Robert's theory IMHO

@gerdiealbers7788

Жыл бұрын

I think the Sphinx's head doesn't fit its paws...or The Sphinx's head should be of a lion...............or The paws should look like a human kneeling...!!,

It's hard to discount your theory, with so much photographic evidence to support it.. Please keep us updated! *;)*

Another good video - thanks! It takes a wise man to say "I don't know"!

@007punkrawker

3 жыл бұрын

*thief

Please consider more that the enclosure and the Sphinx (with all renovations removed) have matching rain erosion. I know you have reviewed many photos, but only in modern photos are the enclosure and Sphinx clearly visible from the front. From that view you can see the rain erosion lines running at a sloped angle. With restoration blocks removed I believe the underlaying bedrock sculpture and or natural formation shows matching erosion to the enclosure. The reason for this is that it seems and I think you eluded to; the Sphinx and the enclosure were carved out from the bedrock at the same time around 12,000 years ago.

In summation: the Sphinx still marvels and puzzles us and remains one of the greatest enigmas. Very good presentation today; maybe your best. Did you reference Peter Tompkins books about Egypt in any of your previous shows? I don't recall you talking about his two books. One of them was about the pyramids and the other about the Obelisks. I really enjoy your short reports. Well done.

@AncientArchitects

5 жыл бұрын

No, I’ve not discussed his work on here yet.

@fredhoupt4078

5 жыл бұрын

@@AncientArchitects OK: I went and got my paperback copy of "The secrets of the great pyramid" by Peter Tompkins, my edition 1978. There are four citations about the Sphinx in this "pyramid" book. Pages 33, 268, 270 & 386. I will tell you what I find if it is relevant. On page 33 we read something familiar: "At one time the Sphinx may have been coated with plaster and painted in various colours [not read this idea in any other book]. Continuing "....A rational explanation of the mystery of the Sphinx was produced by the British astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer, who said that its being half lion, half virgin symbolizes the junction of the constellations of Leo and Virgo which occurred at a summer solstice in the fourth millennium B.C." This sounds pretty standard as speculation or explanations go. But then in the main text on that page we read something quite interesting. I will quote it in full and that will be enough from me today. "Cassini, who very sensibly proposed the adoption of a geodetic foot representing 1/6000th part of a terrestrial minute of arc, would have been astounded had he known that just such a foot had been in existence for several millennia and that the Sphinx, which could be used as a geodetic marker to indicate the equinox, also once had an obelisk between its paws whose shadow could be used to compute not only the correct circumference of the earth but the variance in the degree of latitude." I also have his magnificent book on Obelisks and i'll have a look in it for Sphinx references another time. Hope that this is helpful.

Another great video Matt. On your last video I commented that something was missing but I didn’t know what, today I realized what it is. The great erosion theories not withstanding we also know for a fact that the Sphinx was purposely damaged. And while this is most obvious on the face, it was almost certainly damaged in other areas as well to suit certain religious, social and other agendas. Also some of the masonry was added to cover up facts about the great structure rather than to rebuild it. Read the writings of Constantine de Volney and Vivant Denon from their 18th century trips to Giza as reference. However references to the Sphinx go back all the way to Herodotus and Manetho, individuals whose writings are very selectively pushed as truth while at the same time other parts of the same writings are pushed as fiction or myth.

We love you Matt!keep on keeping on!

Could the weathering have been caused by an ancient oxbow lake coming from the nile,Also lions claws are retracted when in the sitting position.

Ancient Architects I think you definitely should go on those trips that Brian Foerster has organised recently to Egypt, would be interested to hear your thoughts on the tomb of the nobles in Aswan, as well as some of the other places he has visited in the recent week, clearly there is more to Ancient Egypt than what is public knowledge right now...and your thoughts on the Sphinx only adds to the intrigue/mystery!....

Nice one Matt. I feel you are definitely contributing to and increasing knowledge of the subject in really positive way. Because you are not affiliated with anyone who has a vested interest in the truth about Egypt. Chuck (cfapps) also on the same basis. Basically so called 'armchair archaeologists' like yourself really are helping to disseminate from academic findings. Keep it up. I like to just dip in when the mood takes me.

Great post, thank You for not being bias on the subject (in any way)

I always said that I think this monument at one time was a Lamassu

Another quality video, where did you get the black and white pictures from the 1920’s from?

I was thinking that I hadn't seen any videos from you in quite awhile so I went and checked and sure enough... I was mysteriously unsubscribed. 🤔🤔🤔 lol.

@AncientArchitects

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm... glad you looked! 👍

@haroldasaleksa9427

5 жыл бұрын

same here

@waynegoddard7275

5 жыл бұрын

Same.

@emzkoe3904

5 жыл бұрын

@Harry Wolf It's true. 😂lol. But it does happen a lot. It glitches my subs all the time but can somehow manage to bombard me with shit from cnn(😝😝). Working for KZread probably sucks.

@feministkitozwierzeta.krow763

5 жыл бұрын

@Harry Wolf excuse me, But the Illiminated Order of Lizard is semi-secret merchants' organization that acts here in Poland since at least 700 years. It is not top-secret, we host here Lizards, Illuminati, Bilderberd group (creator of that group lived 50m from my grandma), that is semi-official. State owned TV even reports about it, and we have it in history books.

Seems plausible that the original Sphinx was a natural rock formation which the ancients identified with the sacred landscape of the Giza plateau. They carved out a sacred pool in the hill and used the great stones as building materials for a temple. Over time weather and invasions had deteriorated and damaged holy sites causing renovations and perhaps reinterpretations. Thanks for another interesting and informative video.

Love your work but I would love to see an Ariel shot with a marker noting what angle and side of the sphinx we are looking at as you go into your next photo. This information is very interesting but can be hard to follow and you transition between so many different photos and angles, I think it would really help the viewer to see a birds eye photo before you go into the close up of the paws so we can see what side and angles you are looking at.

Hi Matt, I see several pictures of an early 1900s sphinx with a blackened head. This makes me wonder if this coloration is similar to Graham Hancock’s description of scorched stone works from immense heat present at the end of the younger dryas period. If that were the case, one might assume that the Sphinx head (only) hasn’t been altered in 12k yrs.

Many things don't add up. Makes no sense how that one claw isn't eroded 🤔.... hopefully we'll find out one day soon. Great work Matt. Love how you put everything together to make sense.✌️

There is an eroded "beard" notch below where the chest is. I've always thought the head was carved fresh with just it sticking out of the ground above the sand, otherwise the rest of the body would be the same clean carving.

Took me two days to finally get to watching all of this. Not sure about your theory of the water-filled enclosure or the falcon-headed primordial mound, but I can definitely say I've never heard them before, which is exactly what I'd expect from this channel :). Chemical weathering? I'm not so sure, this looks pretty much like run-off to me and the idea that the fissures were only rounded out OVER TIME is absurd to me. The Egyptians were obsessed w/ the precision of their work. Why would a monument which faces precisely towards the sun on the solstice not have a rounded off enclosure? Why would they leave massive fissures instead of grinding them down to a smooth edge like they did with every other piece of stone they could? Personally, I'm going to write this one off until I hear about it again. I'm glad you've made this video, though, b/c Shoch keeps moving his date back more and more. At this point I'm convinced it's just to sound more controversial. In the past 20 years, he's got Gobleki Tepe AND the comet impact during the Younger Dryas to pull him to that date and I do find it a bit coincidental. But lastly, I agree that the state of the Sphinx complex and the quality of the work do make you doubt the timing with the pyramids. I still believe that the Sphinx predates the pyramids, at least in a certain form if not it's current one.

How did that massive cut get there near the top on the left side of the head, the damage to the whole lefthand side. The cut is also on an angle like its been cut down from above , any chance you could look into that and enlighten me?

I do believe that the last line of your script sums up Egypt.

@sun73ny

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty much

What it DOES show is an earlier stage of building which likely precedes the dynastics. If we remove the later Egyptian additions, what do we have left? Rock mounds, extensive tunnels inside and under the Sphinx, connections to the advanced pyramid structures. Gotta look at the whole system overall. Great stuff!

Another excellent video mo chara...

I downloaded and read Jörn Chirtiansen' paper. Well written and well documented. Still I can see that controversy will remain with Sphinx as it should for years to come. Thank you for your willingness to revisit your earlier conclusions. Clearly extensive laboratory work is needed to suss out geophysical facts about the underlying limestone remains to be done. It does appear that several efforts at reconstruction of the Sphinx occured from pre-dynastic times, the fourth dynasty, the 18th dynasty, and perhaps even during Roman times. Wow ! I still think it could be 10,000 years old.

Is the "claw" on the one side at the same depth as the "claw" on the other side? Could the one claw that looks more like a claw be at a higher elevation? Could the other claw with the linear carvings be a stylized platform that the original claw would've rested on?

Truth is far more important than opinion. Thanks for your honesty Matt.

There are things we will never know, but that’s okay. Thanks as always from Florida’s Space Coast.

The middle linear sections may be stylized claws. That or it had mini paws on each toe - I think claws are a better guess. If the body was covered with masonry then the base would have had to be covered as well to support the upper tiers of masonry. With a soft 'foundation' on the upper body, the masonry there may well have failed. I actually think, based on what happens when cob (mud) structures are coated in concrete, that it would be very likely to fail - might even explain some of the depth of the erosion we see. Masonry allows water into the structure though wicking and traps it there. Water then destroys the soft limestone, causing the failure. Regardless, the lower rock face would have to have been covered as well if there were higher masonry tiers. The presence of the lower masonry does not disprove there having been higher tiers at some point.

Why you haven’t one million subscribers I will never know!i guess you have to take your shirt off or something !education just doesn’t do it anymore.My boyfriend asked me why I’m so obsessed with Egypt ?and I said I’m a human of the past who lives in the future and education and history makes me happy!

@AncientArchitects

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good answer!

The lion-headed figurine Lion-man "Löwenmensch" is the oldest-known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world, and the oldest-known uncontested example of figurative art. It has been determined by carbon dating of the layer in which it was found to be between 35,000 and 40,000 years old and was found in a german cave 1939. German researcher Michael Rappenglück sees in the famous 17 000 years old paintings of Lascaux cave star constellations, for example taurus and the pleiades. French paleo-astronomer Chantal Jegues-Wolkiewiez insists there was a long cultural tradition of skywatching among the people of the Cro-Magnon Age of Europe (30,000-10,000 BCE). She proposes that the famous cave paintings of Lascaux in France record the constellations of a prehistoric version of the zodiac which included solstice points and major stars. If it is true that the zodiac is much older than believed there may be some good arguments for a lion sphinx corresponding with the star constellation of leo.

The northern paw is lesser eroded. Imagine more erosion (or cover up the upper part), you'll end up with several vertical lines. Just what you see at the southern paw. But compared to the body, enclosure wall and the temples, yes, they are far less eroded. Edges (enclosure wall) erode faster than round surfaces, like the Sphinx's rump. So I assume the rear paws were carved a long time after they built the temples and shaped the Sphinx monument, or whatever it was in the first place. Comparing the erosion of the paws and the head, it looks like the head was carved much later. Maybe recarved... I really like your Sokar theory, can't wait to hear more!

Nice vid. The geologist said the weathering is consistent with chemical erosion, as the rainy period was before when the enclosure was carved - but when was that again? Also wondering how rain erosion differs from runoff erosion. It's also possible that it was always a cat, but has been covered again and again since the beginning. More carving than masonry 10k+ years ago, devolving into more masonry than carving through cycles of maintenance. Carved-but-eroded features cut-out or shaped as supports for masonry, not dissimilar to crowns and other dental work. Over-time it becomes the question "is this the same sword as my grandfathers?". The sphinx, were it such a sword, could be likened to having only a few bent fastener pins from the original one. Finding the answer could be pretty challenging. Would some intense ground penetrating radar help?

Is there any pictures of inside? Does that have water weather in any way? Or look old like the bedrock itself? Maybe those column looking things were an older structure and something similar may exist still I’m going to spend some time looking now haha

Also if the Sphinx is 12,000 years old it survived a catastrophic event I would not be surprised if the sculpture was precise in conception but cracked in half and weathered to nearly nothing through time.

It's an ancient 12k+ fully carved staue .. eroded by water and sand and restored in the early dynastic and re carved face in the late dynastic time (human face).

06:10 What in the world is that block and gaping hole under the Sphinx's right ear? I have never found an answer to this. It looks like a chamber could be inside. Why would a loose rock be stuffed in there and it not be properly repaired?

@AncientArchitects

5 жыл бұрын

It could be wear something was attached. Apparently it’s not a blocking stone. Just a square groove cut into the head below the ear.

@viciousfish6145

5 жыл бұрын

Why would they hide a secret chamber so badly?

Great, thought-provoking channel.

could the head of the lion be used as an axis for a lever like a device? IDK if that is reasonable with tensile strength

I agree - the body just reminds me of a natural formation (like the white desert) - or the result of quarrying. I think it was an idea a King once had - perhaps Amonhotep III - he got a lot of things done in his reign...I even think there may have been a diff sphinx at some point, that perhaps was destroyed, and this would have been a 'cheap' and easy way to make another one (in his image). I think the head was many people - poss Queen Tiye at one stage (hole by the ear to support large earring - hole in head for 2 feathered headdress)...the Romans also carried out renovations - so a long history of change, as I'm sure you know. Cement was added to the head by the French too - poss reshaping the face even.

I completely agree that this outcrop of rock was most likely shaped and reworked rather than created as a Sphinx. The more interesting thing in my opinion is how the enormous blocks from enclosure were removed and stacked like children's blocks on the so called Sphinx temple. The blocks are even positioned in the order they were removed. If we were to do this today we would remove much much smaller blocks allowing a more straight forward construction project. It seems to stretch credulity to its breaking point to believe this could have been done with primitive tools and engineering expertise, as of course also applies to the Pyramids.

When leaves fall around a hpuse in autumn in new england, they tend to pile up in the tight corners first. This may possibly happened with sand on the northern paw. It may have been the first part to be covered. And rather quickly.

I've always been curious to why the head has parting lines in it almost like it was made of blocks and set on top the mound. Maybe it's the erosion but it looks a lot like blocks to me

it could have been reworked many times through out history.... the original could have been almost completely lost to erosion when reconstructed. Khufu found the pyramids in ruins and rebuilt them. He rebuilt the sphinx as well... he could have reconstructed something that was rebuilt a few times before him...

Thanks for the vid. Can anyone shed some light on the aperture beneath the right ear at 6.11? I vaguely remember seeing an engraving or b/w photo of someone atop a ladder and looking in as if about to enter. I'm sure there was no "plug" in it then, and it certainly seemed big enough for a person to climb in?

When was the cement added to the neck and head dress?

The vertical lines are the claws. The (\/)(\/)(\/)(\/) or ( ll )( ll )( ll )( ll ). The reconstructed paws are very simplistic and the picture showing the older carving reveals how detailed it may have been.

I know im late but it might be that later on especially in the 1900 the Egyptian government wanted to merchandise the Sphinx for tourism by covering and adding new parts or enhancing them.

I sometimes wonder how much of the "lion" shape was a later Old Kingdom addition of what was previously a mound dug out of the rock as you state.....maybe it was originally a mound - a representation the primordial mound? - surrounded by a lake of some kind....what is sure is that the more the whole edifice is "repaired", the less it's going to look like the original.....

Thanks for this good and informative video! I would like to add though, when looking at the Narmer-palet, there was at the time when Narmer took over this land, at least a 'spinx like' structure. It indeed did not have front paws, and might only depict a human or God, but in that situation it would have been a strainge body laying on the ground.., not particularly God like. Narmer, as beeing one of the first rulers, did already mention this statue as valid evidence there is a statue at the former time of him, and probably important to the people too. Because what is shown on the palet, is that Narmers higher God, which is the falcon of the 'first' scream for help to the Sun ( bringing Life back after dark times), leads the 'lower' God in the form of the statue( human or half human half God) by the nose. By the nose, as we still use this saying today. This shows us, there was a great conflict between rulers and they're ideas, and probably goes way back in history before the time of Narmer fighting it. The Sphinx might have been something different as what we think right now, but how far back would we have to go? The falcon at least seems to go, as far as the birds of Noah or Utnapishtim, as they have the same story of the beginning after the deluge. From all these stories, which might have come from the same origin, to me, the falcon with it's scream in daylight, in order to call the Sun for the Life bringing light on Earth after dark days, weeks or even months, has the most profound effect, and is very well placed for the surviving human beings. Much more than the other bird stories, which might have come later, with less fitting behaviours. Not much of a help, sorry.. :-)

I wonder if drones are allowed on the plateu, I would love to go and film the shaft entrances etc

Thanks for the video..some how I missed this one..I agree it's a huge mystery. The weathering makes no sense to me....unless the whole monument had casing stones but over the years they were stolen for other projects by the locals...I don't argue that this happened but it would be a better explanation for the weathering. I don't know either but I hope you will keep looking for an answer that make sense.

i’m pretty sure the sphinx is antediluvian and changes and maintenance were carried out over time as with literally all human works. to find out we can’t conclusively date most monoliths and megaliths around the old (walls and places in peru to columns in zagazig (north egypt)) and that the oldest often are of the highest quality it doesn’t surprise me the sphinx looks like it faced water, wind, and probably was of a high quality and chipped away at by peoples with lesser abilities. it’s incredible how such obstinances was and is still present in sciences and the social sciences-and such a reclucance to work together. we’re going to have to be the change we want to see in research, history, politics, and raised human unity and consciousness. i respect my elders. but i’m glad to see them slowly be retired. the power that be manipulated society and made us dim, complacent, unbalanced, and distracted focused on work and entertainment, keeping knowledge for themselves while exploiting everyone else.

Hello AA, In a previous video you showed a drawing of the sphinx that looks like a 'snail' with a human head, without paws or tail. I believe that was the original shape. Perhaps it was simply the remnants in the middle of a quarry, then they carved the head out of the highest outcrop?

Great videos well done

Let me put it this way. The basic shape of a cat, or animal with head and haunches, appears to be there with lots of rainwater erosion. The only way that those vertical fissures would be possible, via innundatuion, would be by a very slow, very shallow innundation, or by an extremely long period of rain errosion. Not a cascading waterfall. Only a slow trickle of water could produce errosion this way. Let's go to the Sphinx. Let's fund raise a semi large group expedition. I'll throw down as much as possible. We need to get a first hand glimpse. I am so willing to argue the particulars with you, but I want to be there. I'm not far from Boston so let's see if Schoch will come. Perhaps we could do an "ANCIENT ARCHITECTS" with special guest Robert Schoch expedition. Like a "meet up" but in Egypt. I'm down. Lets raise funds and get started. I've always wanted to go. Might as well go with people who love Egypt as much as I do. WHAT DO YOU SAY??

Can you please do a video on: "The Tomb of the Birds"? (The one on the Giza plateau)

First time ever commenting: I believe it’s both I mean ur both rt cause artists always take something ordinary and turn it into a beautiful source of entertainment for our hearts and minds to enjoy.

Thanks for a very interesting video. I'm wondering if the entire plateau was graded, flattened as much as possible, reducing the surface, along w/the top of the "head" of the Sphinx as well as the Khafre corridor? That odd road had many iterations, sometimes covered over, built up, repaired. And a very ancient "tomb, the Osiris Shaft" 3 stories down and about 1/2 the distance to the Sphinx? Has anyone discovered/dug down to the superstructure of the Sphinx, or below those two temples in front of it? If the Nile came up to those buildings, there could be evidence of their original purpose, and so too w/that monstrous sculpture? I'm wondering if the Greeks/Romans esp. may have not only built inside the Sphinx, but repurposed those temples as well to suit their own interpretation/self-importance which would cover up/destroy any previous ones? The claws in that back hind leg look to me like it could belong to a more "evil"?, scary "god", and maybe not what was originally intended? I guessing that wouldn't be an appropriate "god" for the dynastic Egyptian's interpretation of their written historical religion,ie The Book of the Dead, The Memphite Theology, since there's no reference to that structure in any of them implying an evil intent to such an important way-station to the Duat, "heaven"? The Horakhati/Sokar references are open to interpretation, I thought: the 1st could be*s/groups of *s, the East, where they rise, the Ecliptic, Horus; the 2nd, a boat and Osiris and resurrection and Lord of the region of the sky where the dead Pharaohs hope to "ascend" to in those "boats"? Pointing due East (w/the 3 pyramids behind it) has to be an important factor, since those structures seem to be placed evenly on both sides of it? Perhaps coming earlier in the entire monuments' /plateau's composition? That Khafre corridor was reported to be a natural seam of limestone? It had to have been scraped down, worked on and couldn't that have been done to the entire area before anything was constructed there, and the top layer of harder limestone we see today (or different, softer quality limestone above it) chiseled down to as well; meaning the natural "yardang"? was worked on at that time the upper plateau was levelled and the corridor smoothed down. That natural formation seems to go directly under the second pyramid, geologically? What is the quality of the limestone along that seam?

the claw is very clear at 7:38 , the amount of lines you drawing are just divided the spaces in between the actual claw and the paw. count the 2nd, 5th and 8th space you've created. these would represent the claws. which are the raised spaces

There is more erosion on the walls than the Sphinx because the Sphinx had stone covering it, that has been replaced, time and time again, and is something they would care for a whole hell of a lot more than a retaining wall. Vertical fishers in the walls around the Sphinx could not be carved as deeply as they are from a once a year flood or from the "pool" periodically flooding. This is evidence of thousands of years of rain water poring down over the walls, since the Sphinx is a low point in the area. All the water in the area would gravitate to the Sphinx from the plateau, that is why there would be a channel running from the Sphinx to the Nile, not because they filled it with water, but because they were draining it. The channel runs down hill from the Sphinx to the Nile, not the other way around. There are tunnels and burial chamber below the Sphinx, that would also get flooded, so purposely flooding the Sphinx is out of the question.

Is it possible that the irregularity on the one side in relation to the paws is because it was carved with two paws together in the way lions are known to lay? Perhaps the reason for the difference is because the style of the lion was changed from reclining with two paws on one side to paws on either side.

Love your videos and hard work put into them. But I always notice that if the sphinx was buried up to its neck until 1925, it still has a lot of erosion all over its body. So it's been in that condition for a long time. So it was eroded to that extent when the sand began to cover it.

Chemical weathering can be seen in caves. Also, when excavating to level the constructing of roads and for constructing the foundations of buildings, especially high rise buildings that need deeper foundations. I’m leaning toward Christensen. Thank you for a well researched and presented video.

Well. Cats claws arent always out. When their paws are relaxed you just see a line where it unsheaths from. Perhaps the reason we saw the talons at the back, and lack of tail is that it was depicted with a birds back end.

When looking at sphinx face on which way gets the south facing sun?because that more intense heat will speed up weathering!

@Ancient Architects What about the floods that Randall Carlson talk about on Joe Rogan show? He talked specifically about how one of hypothesis was exactly how the Sphinx enclosure water erosion could have happened.

15:07... The Rock outcrop, to the left of the Sphinx, looks to me to be a part of a ridge that has been levelled, and overall the Sphinx is below the surrounding topography, perhaps that area has been reworked dozens of times, to fit the religious beliefs and paradigms of different ages