How the Great Sphinx Transformed Giza

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The Great Sphinx draws enormous attention due to its unique role in Egyptian history. Throughout time humans have used its projection of power to for their own needs and desires. But what are the origins of this oldest surviving megalith statue?
This video analyzes the Sphinx from multiple perspectives, including the geological evidence, the contextual evidence, and the logistical evidence for constructing the largest pyramids at Giza.
The abyss of time prevents us from being certain about how the Sphinx began, but what is the historical pattern that makes the most sense based upon how humans have behaved for thousands of years?
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A Gift of Geology by Colin Reader:
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Note: This is a geology book, NOT a history book.
0:00 Intro
1:42 Who built the Sphinx?
2:58 Pharaohs Stealing Stuff
4:53 Geology of the Sphinx
6:50 Double standards for evidence
10:17 Pyramid casing erosion
11:05 Contextual evidence
12:34 Causeway - Temple alignment
14:40 Matching the temples
16:05 Pyramid construction evidence
18:11 Causeway as a construction ramp
20:03 Sphinx purpose?
22:05 History repeats

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  • One of the few channels where I eagerly anticipate the next installment. Your analysis and research is absolutely fascinating.

    @jeremyd1869@jeremyd1869 Жыл бұрын
    • For me it’s, this channel and Fall of Civilizations.

      @coltonstanger5808@coltonstanger5808 Жыл бұрын
    • I agree this is an amazing channel

      @ashleyking6743@ashleyking6743 Жыл бұрын
    • @@coltonstanger5808 yes, that's one of my faves too.

      @jeremyd1869@jeremyd1869 Жыл бұрын
    • Easily my favorite Channel. This man is going places.

      @kmatcyk@kmatcyk Жыл бұрын
    • Wikipedia"knowledge", nothing more.

      @shadowangel2235@shadowangel2235 Жыл бұрын
  • Babe wake up, it's time to support this line of inquiry.

    @Ryne918@Ryne918 Жыл бұрын
    • Hilarious, niche, i love it!

      @sebastianmichaelrogel6404@sebastianmichaelrogel6404 Жыл бұрын
    • Sorry the sphinx is just as important as the great pyramids. Was distracted by the fact he thinks “meh it’s just a random thing carved into some stone.” They’re all more than 12,000 years old. Much more.

      @Badger1776@Badger1776 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Badger1776 Nah dude, Sphinx is like 200 years old max. Ever seen photos of it from before, like, 1860 or whatever? Didn't think so.

      @Ryne918@Ryne918 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Ryne918 true. Never thought of that. Thanks.

      @Badger1776@Badger1776 Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@Ryne918 *Gas* *powered* *stick* 🪄

      @annapierce8666@annapierce8666 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm in my first year of university for a History degree as a mature student and it's kind of alarming to hear not only the wild claims Hawass/Lehner are making, but the validity and authority that's always been given to them. They aren't even doing the bare minimum in analysis, such as comparing and contrasting other causeways which you have done here. They seem to sort of look at things, imagine a story, and decide that this story is the truth because they said so. Additionally, in my course they are adamant about diligent referencing, and H/L seem to have a very casual attitude towards providing sources behind their claims. I would think as well that, in the pursuit of knowledge, one might be open to wisdom from other disciplines (such as geologists) if it both broadened my perspective and gave a more complete answer to the mystery at hand. But hey, what do I know? I'm not an "expert." Anyway, fantastic video as always, keep up the good work. 👍

    @melere777@melere777 Жыл бұрын
    • Did you read their works?

      @dragonmartijn@dragonmartijn11 ай бұрын
    • They are just teaching them to believe. Their version of 'science' is a religion. They are believers, everything else is heresy. There is no scientific method taught in schools anymore, if ever

      @funkymunky7935@funkymunky79353 ай бұрын
  • This channel's content has got to be some of the most thoughtful, even-keeled, rationally grounded, and intriguing research available on the platform with respect to this subject matter. Top-quality content in every installment. Keep up the great work.

    @XoddamCXVII@XoddamCXVII Жыл бұрын
  • The two most consistent things about your videos: High production values and never missing an opportunity to take a swing at Zahi Hawass. You really hate that guy. 😁

    @MarkWarbington@MarkWarbington Жыл бұрын
    • I don't hate Hawass, I see him more as a tragic figure corrupted by power. His scholarship up to the early 90's wasn't bad. The global attention brought by the Great Pyramid shafts mystery really warped him. But consequently we have to be skeptical of anything he asserts because his statements are no longer backed by evidence but instead his own reputation/authority.

      @HistoryforGRANITE@HistoryforGRANITE Жыл бұрын
  • Best channel on KZhead for this kind of stuff. SO happy there's a new video!

    @Astro_Oogo@Astro_Oogo Жыл бұрын
    • This is one of what I consider the three best, Matt's Ancient Architects, and Prof. Miano's World of Antiquity being the others. This week has featured a Trifecta, a new video from each of them!

      @JMM33RanMA@JMM33RanMA Жыл бұрын
  • I think your insight into Egypt's most amazing structures is inspiring. No aliens, no strange conclusions, just pure science. I wish I put half as much effort into the study as you have. I would love it if you made an analysis of the unfinished obelisk of Aswan at some point. Keep up the amazing work!

    @XXX3RX0@XXX3RX0 Жыл бұрын
    • I agree with your comment about his insights, but this video is about the interpretation of evidence and speculation. History for Granites common sense approach to what questions he asks, and how he interprets evidence and what's in front of him is really spot on in this video. The one thing missing is the mention of the Inventory Stela, although it's written off by historians as a fake narrative it's the only documentation that really directly mentions the Sphinx in Ancient times. Placing it's construction before Khufu, in my speculation this makes sense especially if you consider Houdins theory on the causeway being built for TGP. As it appears the causeway deliberately avoids the Sphinx.

      @edfu_text_U_later@edfu_text_U_later Жыл бұрын
    • Unfortunately this video ignored a large portion of actual geology research from the site in order to fit the channel's narrative.

      @danielleahy15@danielleahy15 Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@Shelmerdine745 literally none lol

      @JPOGame@JPOGame11 ай бұрын
    • ​@@edfu_text_U_laterI would say they causeway tells us the Sphinx came after. Why would the Sphinx enclosure be an odd shape of the causeway wasn't already there? The shape of the enclosure is what it is because the causeway was already there

      @swirvinbirds1971@swirvinbirds197111 ай бұрын
    • @@danielleahy15 At 5:00 the narrator explains that channel title is History OF Granite and not History FOR Granite meaning his expertise is archeology not geology. And he does mention a geologist, Colin Reader, who has done extensive study of area. This was probably something you alluded to by saying the geology was not part of his narrative to in your comment.

      @michaeldeierhoi4096@michaeldeierhoi409611 ай бұрын
  • Hello! I discovered your channel only a few weeks ago. I was talking to a neighbour of mine about the construction of the pyramids. He think aliens built it. He's adamant about it. I used your video about the internal ramp theory to illustrate my point that it's possible to build these structures. I clicked on your video because it seemed to have the best explanation and great visuals. I was so amazed by the quality of it that I binged all of your content in a couple days. When I was younger I was really fascinated by the ancient Egyptians and your channel really reignited my passion in the subject. I am studying CS in university but I took up a subject for next semester about archeology (Introduction to Ancient Archeology) just because of you. Keep up the good work!

    @gergoturan4033@gergoturan4033 Жыл бұрын
    • How do you explain that vase, that uncharted just made a video on on youtube

      @michelfraenkel4920@michelfraenkel4920 Жыл бұрын
    • @@michelfraenkel4920 some kind of lathe or potter’s wheel + good old fashioned primitive tools.

      @peterfireflylund@peterfireflylund Жыл бұрын
    • @@michelfraenkel4920 A simple pottery wheel and abrasive tools, it's not rocket science.

      @masaharumorimoto4761@masaharumorimoto4761 Жыл бұрын
    • When I was younger I was really fascinated by a neighbor of mine. He reignited my passion and made a video of my internal ramp.

      @TimPerfetto@TimPerfetto Жыл бұрын
    • You are so lucky! You get so many amazing videos to watch whenever you have time. I hope you enjoy them all !

      @jimsubtle886@jimsubtle886 Жыл бұрын
  • Been waiting eagerly for you to weigh in on The Great Sphinx. It’s remarkable how one man can severely hamper research and understanding of these great wonders, that Hawass has been able to do. This great and significant civilisation deserves better and I think you are trying to do it justice. Another great video from you, thank you.

    @mototrainer1@mototrainer1 Жыл бұрын
    • Hawass is a liar...

      @sdaniel9129@sdaniel9129 Жыл бұрын
    • Hawass actively prevents modern study of the plateau. Not a good scientist.

      @erictjones@erictjones11 ай бұрын
  • We visited Giza in 2010. The day before it rained like crazy in Cairo, apparently something that only happens a few times a year. This washed the dust off of all the monuments and when we looked at the Great Sphinx we could see what appeared to be painted stripes that were now visible on the headdress after the rain washing.

    @zzdoodzz@zzdoodzz Жыл бұрын
    • possibly they could get some age related data from the remnants of that paint?

      @Rusty_Gold85@Rusty_Gold85 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Rusty_Gold85 We saw lots of ancient paint on temples and such as well. Pillars at Kom Ombo, and especially the ceiling of Dendara, which at the time of our visit they were in the process of cleaning the soot from the ceiling. The soot naturally protected the paint over the centuries. I'm guessing the last time these structures were painted was around 300 or 400 AD?

      @zzdoodzz@zzdoodzz Жыл бұрын
    • The head was re-carved

      @bujfvjg7222@bujfvjg722211 ай бұрын
    • @@bujfvjg7222 I agree, the head is too small compared to the body, the proportions are off.

      @zzdoodzz@zzdoodzz11 ай бұрын
    • I enjoy the hypothesis that the head was re-carved.

      @erictjones@erictjones11 ай бұрын
  • Yet another excellent video! Yours is one of the most consistently well thought-through and presented channels. Your analysis is top-notch and any conclusions or theories based on the best available evidence and most logical interpretations of it. I wish mainstream Egyptology would adopt such an approach! Thank you for another terrific entry in your growing catalogue of content.

    @conniebenny@conniebenny Жыл бұрын
  • While the erosion pattern argument makes good sense, when you consider the shape of the enclosure of the Sphinx itself as shown in various maps, the limit of the enclosure by Khafre's causeway is curious. The Sphinx lies parallel to the northern wall of the enclosure and square to the temple. The angle of the causeway though, is oblique to both Khafre's temple orientation and the Sphinx's. I would ask if perhaps the causeway predates both the Sphinx and Khafre's temple, and was instead the original access to the Giza plateau. The construction of the sphinx enclosure, which is excavated into the bedrock appears to recognize the causeway as a boundary. If the causeway were later repurposed as a processional way from the temple. Just a thought.

    @theeddorian@theeddorian Жыл бұрын
    • That seems the likely explanation. As AA has pointed out in a previous video, the causeway is probably the oldest structure at Gizah and as this video shows it was probably later used for transporting blocks for the construction of the 2 larger pyramids. It also lends to my idea that the 3 pyramids were part of a pre planned design being as they are.....perfectly aligned on the plateau....

      @panchopuskas1@panchopuskas1 Жыл бұрын
    • Wouldn't that imply that the causeway was carved into solid rock, and fairly deeply at that given how much lower it is than the Sphinx?

      @hedgehog3180@hedgehog3180Ай бұрын
    • Isn't it obvious it's all for water? Moats, ponds, fountains, canals, hello? McFly?

      @efdangotu@efdangotuАй бұрын
  • You’re a breathe of very measured fresh air sir, no conspiracies, no speculation, no conclusions, just a review of the facts as far as we know them at this point today, nothing more, nothing less.

    @simonkelly2339@simonkelly2339 Жыл бұрын
  • A pleasant surprise! I was just about to go to sleep, but it looks like I get to stay up a bit longer and enjoy this man’s lovely and informative work.. 🎉🎉

    @Jonnygurudesigns@Jonnygurudesigns Жыл бұрын
  • I’m loving this stuff, but I really wanna hear more about the potential of the sphinx being a pre-Egyptian construction

    @redacted5052@redacted5052 Жыл бұрын
    • This was enlightening. kzhead.info/sun/fdt-ppuda6CMg5s/bejne.html

      @phil9979@phil9979 Жыл бұрын
    • 0 potential xD

      @Rastei@Rastei Жыл бұрын
    • @@Catdad76801 oh okay, nevermind everybody! Cat dad has figured out what all the experts cannot. Get over yourself dude you cannot know that. Be rational.

      @disgruntledwookie369@disgruntledwookie369 Жыл бұрын
    • Seems pretty likely based on the evidence. And the only "professionals" that openly disagree are clearly not credible in any way.

      @disgruntledwookie369@disgruntledwookie369 Жыл бұрын
    • @@disgruntledwookie369 "Seems pretty likely based on the evidence" Clearly you weren't paying attention during the video. The evidence from a geological perspective is highly mixed and lacking necessary pre pyramid construction topology of Giza to get a true account of how long term erosion could have impacted the layers of limestone even before excavation began (believe it or not this can and does happen with limestone). It's not impossible that some pre dynastic culture like the Maadi (4,000 - 3,500 BCE) initially excavated and venerated a mound at the site prior to Old Kingdom modifications and renovations, but there is basically no way to verify such a thing unless they left some kind of pictographic evidence that survived (which is pretty unlikely).

      @mnomadvfx@mnomadvfx Жыл бұрын
  • I don't have any knowledge about all the theories behind it, but after staring for past 20 minutes at it from all angles, the head doesn't seem proportional to the body...it seems much smaller. So the possibility that it was reshaped in the past makes a lot of sense and explains why it is smaller. Idk if that was already discussed or not.

    @TheDarkDen@TheDarkDen Жыл бұрын
    • It's carved from natural rock and could only be as big as the outcropping. Also, there are no "correct" proportions for a human-headed lion.

      @bdinkify@bdinkify Жыл бұрын
    • Hey Petko! Nice to see you here!

      @mpp3189@mpp3189 Жыл бұрын
    • It looks like the face was reconstructed after the contoured water damage had already happened. I would like to know more from a geologist's perspective on the hardness of the limestone, which may be softer than surrounding limestone structures.

      @campbellpaul@campbellpaul Жыл бұрын
    • @@campbellpaul Check out Robert Schock👍

      @natasjadirken5633@natasjadirken5633 Жыл бұрын
    • @@bdinkify Then why not make the body smaller? Because as it is the head looks ridiculously tiny, correct proportions or no.

      @kragary@kragary Жыл бұрын
  • I'll never get tired of your pyramid videos, but this was fantastic! That was the best treatment of the Sphynx I've ever seen, plausible and reasonable. Thank you for the consistently wonderful content.

    @peterjanson1058@peterjanson1058 Жыл бұрын
  • What a refreshing channel you have here, it's great to see someone engage with the material in a new and constructive manner that doesn't resort to ascribing Egyptian's history to some mysterious "others". Also, I did ask my friends if the took history for granite but they didn't get it, because it only works in your accent ;)

    @OssianLore@OssianLore10 ай бұрын
  • Wow, this video was awesome. I loved how you raised the point 'why was the Sphinx carved when it could have been built block by block like every other construction of the Pharaohs?' That's something I have pondered on for a few years. Also Houdins theory of the causeway being built for TGP is compelling. Well done, this is one of the best videos on the Sphinx I have seen, and I have seen a lot.

    @edfu_text_U_later@edfu_text_U_later Жыл бұрын
  • I'm so happy Matt sent me over here not so long ago, I look every day to see if you have something new. I even rewatch them over and over and I seem always learn something new from you and for that I thank you. Thanks for another great video. Well done sir

    @baysideauto@baysideauto Жыл бұрын
    • Matt is great!

      @HistoryforGRANITE@HistoryforGRANITE Жыл бұрын
  • I hope with great anticipation a new video related to the corridor behind the chevons in the Great Pyramid, and if it has an impact on the inner ramp theory.

    @edguitarstanleyeisen6179@edguitarstanleyeisen6179 Жыл бұрын
  • Excellent shots of the pyramids and the sphinx. Really enjoyed your take on its construction and the theories out there. Keep up the excellent work. There are some other interesting sites I’d enjoy seeing your take on, like the Osireion (Osirion). Thanks again for the great video/contribution.

    @iMattC@iMattC Жыл бұрын
  • Mr Lehner saying there is no way to test that idea is amazing. The way his eyes shine over right after the words come from him. Beautifully ironic.

    @kmatcyk@kmatcyk Жыл бұрын
  • really been loving your channel! ancient egypt has interested me for years and i really appreciate your videos. i also really love Joann Fletcher’s Immortal Egypt series- her energy and passion is great

    @littletweeter1327@littletweeter1327 Жыл бұрын
    • Fletcher has a nice way of presenting, I agree.

      @HistoryforGRANITE@HistoryforGRANITE Жыл бұрын
  • Lying in bed with the flu and binge watching your videos, brother. Thanks for making me forget my hurting head. This is some amazing stuff you have on your channel.

    @JMW_JMW_JMW@JMW_JMW_JMW Жыл бұрын
    • Get well soon dude. 😘

      @fabiosplendido9536@fabiosplendido9536 Жыл бұрын
    • Get well soon!

      @nefernefer19@nefernefer19 Жыл бұрын
  • Another awesome video. Great research and great analysis.

    @jacquesdesjardins6729@jacquesdesjardins6729 Жыл бұрын
  • I've been checking almost daily this week for a new upload, thanks for these truly intelligent investigations

    @kiwiwelch3620@kiwiwelch3620 Жыл бұрын
  • Brilliant video as always. I like how you think, and the way you present your thoughts and findings is just amazing!

    @TommyAmun@TommyAmun Жыл бұрын
  • Wow! I really liked this video. I like all of your videos. I really really liked the renders of what things looked like. Really helped me to understand the information you were putting out. What I really really really liked was when you drew illustrations on that map showing the quarry, route and causeway. That helped immensely in understand what you were describing. Thank you. And thank you for the interesting and informative content. I never miss a video. Please keep up the good work.

    @kevinjaeger4705@kevinjaeger4705 Жыл бұрын
    • I really, really, really concur. (no sarcasm intended)

      @joedaodragon3565@joedaodragon3565 Жыл бұрын
  • They just released a video of the chamber above the entrance! Can’t wait to see your video about it!

    @cathailmeegan@cathailmeegan Жыл бұрын
  • What a fantastic outro. You always seem to have such great observations and insight on the state of modern Egyptology and im very grateful for you sharing them

    @zeddddd2846@zeddddd2846 Жыл бұрын
  • Another amazing video. I love these. Facts, interesting observations and just the right amount of audacity to challenge the Egypto-Industrial Complex.

    @kev3d@kev3d Жыл бұрын
  • Robert Schoch is also a prominent researcher who started talking about the water erosion in 1990

    @weldspatterspray5171@weldspatterspray5171 Жыл бұрын
  • Yay new video! Watching immediately....

    @jenswurm@jenswurm Жыл бұрын
  • I'm a competent computer scientist and I recognize another scientist when I hear or read their words. It is an intellectual treat to listen to your thought processes!

    @JohnnyWednesday@JohnnyWednesday11 ай бұрын
  • Wonderful stuff. Your forensic approach to the subject really is excellent.

    @jamesdeath3477@jamesdeath3477 Жыл бұрын
  • We need a video for the new discovery of the hidden corridor found today. Can’t wait for your in deep review. I remember you theorizing about it after the scan results. 😀

    @renanss@renanss Жыл бұрын
  • 5:25 Three cheers for [thorough and rigorous] independent researchers! Another great video from you, thank you.

    @mikethemaniacal@mikethemaniacal Жыл бұрын
    • So what if the sphinx is the ancient egyptian equivalent of "Lovers' Lookout"?

      @mikethemaniacal@mikethemaniacal Жыл бұрын
  • I just want to say every single time I see one of your videos come up, I immediately stop what I’m doing and watch .

    @MarshalJed@MarshalJed Жыл бұрын
  • So great to have your latest. You're the best!

    @albertconstantine5432@albertconstantine5432 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks. Very interesting. I'd love to hear your views on the labyrinth that some believe is buried in the area.

    @kdeuler@kdeuler Жыл бұрын
    • This is very intriguing. Googled it to no avail.

      @mortalclown3812@mortalclown3812 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mortalclown3812 kzhead.info/sun/g6V9e5qJqGSemqM/bejne.html&ab_channel=UnchartedX

      @kdeuler@kdeuler Жыл бұрын
    • Mark Lehner has stated on camera that there are many, many tunnels under the Giza Plateau. This was in an American programme made way back in the 1980s. The title however eludes me at the moment though possibly the one narrated by Charlton Heston.

      @farmerpete6274@farmerpete6274 Жыл бұрын
  • I will be so excited to see what happens in the field of Egyptology after the gatekeeping of Hawass and Lehner finally ends. Obviously it won't be anything completely crazy, but there will be lots of access granted that wasn't formerly available because of the immense corruption and the power that Hawass holds.

    @kingjoe3rd@kingjoe3rd Жыл бұрын
  • As always, thanks for posting. Watching through my second time. Absolutely riveting stuff!

    @tomlindsay4629@tomlindsay4629 Жыл бұрын
  • Always love your videos, watch alll the way through :)

    @aleanguy216@aleanguy216 Жыл бұрын
  • I eagerly await your take on the recent discovery of a 30 foot long corridor inside the great Pyramid including endoscopic video.

    @douginorlando6260@douginorlando6260 Жыл бұрын
  • Yes!! A new video.

    @Lookoutmedia353@Lookoutmedia353 Жыл бұрын
  • I love it when I find time to hit your backlog, hard to make videos and do research and live life. But when I find a small window for me, and I feel caught up with YT enough I don't feel the hot breath of the algorithm on my neck, I sit down to your channel. Thanks for handling these actual mysteries without letting your head get soft.

    @DeDunking@DeDunking8 ай бұрын
    • And just finished it, like I said life is hairy. But, I loved this one, I mean I will use some of the info I got here to go through Lehner's and Hawas' work on the Sphinx and pull it apart, as it seems it's a house of cards. Not surprising given what I've seen in the few months I've been doing this. 'DeDunking' refers to 'debunking the debunkers' on the weirder stuff, usually by demonstrating they don't have a clue what they're talking about. This is perfect. I'll make sure to give you a shout for giving me the kernel of an idea, and since I have a whopping 1.3k subscribers, and almost all of them love the sciencey side of the mysteries so they all know of you, I'm certain you'll gain at least a subscriber. Seriously this was awesome. The paths and other structures built around the enclosure, and showing why the opposing argument is crap... *slow claps for like 10 minutes

      @DeDunking@DeDunking8 ай бұрын
  • I really appreciate all your videos and your careful but intuitive guesses are refreshing.

    @andorifjohn@andorifjohn Жыл бұрын
  • watched every episode on your channel and love this type of thought-provoking conversations with the world's biggest mystery. My bucket list is having a hookah sesh with you in Cairo sometime

    @StickShiftRWD@StickShiftRWD Жыл бұрын
  • I saw that documentary covering the theory that Khufu built the Great Sphinx, based on its visuals. That was when I learned skepticism for conventional Egyptological wisdom, even if it comes from Lehner, whose book _The Complete Pyramids_ will remain a casual favorite of mine. In fairness to my own free thinking, however, I've *always* been skeptical of Hawass. He's consistently seemed to have a chip on his shoulder for foreign Egyptology in particular, and his influence has been responsible for so much stalling of important projects that I begin to wonder if I'll even live to see them undertaken.

    @Asterra2@Asterra2 Жыл бұрын
    • My biggest problem with 'The Complete Pyramids' is that Lehner never personally investigated most of them! It's aggregating other researchers - Borchardt, Maragioglio, Petrie, Perring, etc. Nothing wrong with doing that, but it's a secondary source that isn't fit for serious research. The line becomes blurred about if Lehner is accurately characterizing what other researchers have stated. As seen in many of my videos, there are plenty of errors in that work. The source material isn't double checked. That's why blunders like the number of courses of granite in Menkaure's pyramid or Khafre's lid being broken slip in to the 2017 'definitive history' book as well.

      @HistoryforGRANITE@HistoryforGRANITE Жыл бұрын
    • @@HistoryforGRANITE At the time I bought it, it was almost incontrovertibly the best resource for the kind of information I was looking for, just as Robert Partridge's _Faces of Pharaohs_ (ca. 1996, using photographs from typically more than 100 years ago) was and likely remains the best resource for _that_ kind of information. If there's something now out there that's similarly comprehensive but happily free of errors, I'd certainly be interested in knowing about it. I'm not altogether picky about whether the information was or wasn't sourced personally by the author-finances dictate that I don't purchase a dozen individual books to satisfy a largely arbitrary mandate.

      @Asterra2@Asterra2 Жыл бұрын
  • Frequently eagerly search for new videos from this channel.

    @trimurthya149@trimurthya149 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for putting something out on the sphinx. Once again your perspective and objective observations puts this piece of history in the best perspective. I really identify with your thoughts on it but appreciate that you mention that the pyramids and the construction of them are far more interesting And difficult to explain. The internal ramp theory I feel is correct. Looking forward to what you come out with next

    @joshuabeaudoin8106@joshuabeaudoin8106 Жыл бұрын
  • I find several things odd about the Sphynx. It's a large sculpture, and yet it's relatively difficult to look at, particularly from ground level. From a distance you'd only see the head, and you'd have to get right up to the enclosure to see the body. This actually seems pretty cool: the large object that can only be seen from up close. But it also seems to be in sharp contrast with the Pyramids, which dominate the landscape for miles and miles. The enclosure also seems rather odd. It's an unusual shape, and the cuts seem rather haphazard. In some places there's a vertical cut all the way to the floor. In others the cuts only go part way down. Some of this might be the natural slope of the hill, but it really looks like an unfinished excavation. In the shot at 12:09 you can see the odd terracing, where they seem to have made a smaller enclosure within a larger one. This is again in sharp contrast to the stark simple geometry of the Pyramids, where everything is straight and polished flat, as if to highlight its artificiality. They could have easily given the enclosure a sharp geometric shape, as they did with the temples right next to it.

    @davidjordan2336@davidjordan2336 Жыл бұрын
    • my idea is, that the sphinx once had the head of a lion and represented the deity Aker ("he who's in his pit"). Aker was the deity of death from predynastic time to the end of 5th dynasty. of course it would make sense to bury a lion statue of a "pit-dwelling" deity in a pit, right?

      @phoneguy4637@phoneguy4637 Жыл бұрын
    • Hi, you both seem to have a fairly broad knowledge. Do either of you know the name of the sphinx before it got the greek name sphinx? I had a Google but can't find anything. But it must of had an Egyptian name before the Greeks got there, is it just lost to history?

      @DevilsAvocado69@DevilsAvocado69 Жыл бұрын
    • @@DevilsAvocado69 hi there! it is completely unknown, if the sphinx of giza had its own name. it is also unknown, to which deity it was tributed. the main problem is that there is absolutely zero contemporary inscription in the whole of egypt even mentioning the sphinx. the first time that the sphinx was mentioned and connected to a certain deity was during the 13th dynasty, when the name of a deity named Hurun was archaeologically detected at the sphinx's 13th dynasty temple. however, Hurun is not of egyptian origin.

      @phoneguy4637@phoneguy4637 Жыл бұрын
    • @@DevilsAvocado69 the term "sphinx" derives from the ancient greek verb "sphingain" which means "to prey upon" or "to strangle".

      @phoneguy4637@phoneguy4637 Жыл бұрын
    • @@DevilsAvocado69 My understanding is kind of like what PhoneGuy said, namely that pretty much nothing is known about the Sphynx. It's generally presumed to be much older than the Pyramids, and the water weathering seems to back up that it's a relic of predynastic times. And I think it's also generally presumed to have once had a different head, because the current one is way too small for the body. But truth be told, we just don't know anything. And that's part of why Ancient Egypt is so fascinating. There's all this cool stuff, with no real historical record to explain it. So pretty much all we can do is speculate about it. Which is kind of fun to do.

      @davidjordan2336@davidjordan2336 Жыл бұрын
  • The disgracious proportions of the Sphinx suggest that some work was made over the years after its first initial completion. It’s really hard to imagine that the initial builders had this in mind when they carved it

    @xl000@xl000 Жыл бұрын
    • my thoughts exactly...and how much erosion could happen to the head in a few hundred years to cause it to be that much smaller?

      @EQ_EnchantX@EQ_EnchantX Жыл бұрын
    • @@EQ_EnchantX maybe the head was modified with the body still fully underground ? Hence the weird proportions. They found some animal head and carved it so that it looks like a man. It doesn't explain why the front legs are so long though.

      @xl000@xl000 Жыл бұрын
    • @@xl000 That does not make sense than. They are saying a pharoah created it in his image, that is the "official" story...yet the head is tiny and resembles a pharoah so he must of made it...zero logic...

      @EQ_EnchantX@EQ_EnchantX Жыл бұрын
  • ... the, "Just trust me, Bro" explanation... - CLASSIC. Thank you for another great video and all the fascinating information you share with us!

    @sillyhumans@sillyhumans Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks! Your work on this topic is amazing. Keep it going!!

    @ricardgascons7940@ricardgascons7940 Жыл бұрын
  • I gotta say i am blown away by the quality of this channel! How you present details in great depth, yet easily understandable to a layperson such as myself. It has increased my fascination with the subject multiple-fold and clearly no overplaying of any mysticism is needed! I am also loving the snark delivered with what seems to me to be rock solid rhetoric. Although at the same time i am also appalled by the things i hear. Of course, i do realize with my limited knowledge, im not the best at judging the validity of any statement. But luckily i am not in a position where my opinions on the subject matters in any way other than for me personally. Anyway i will continue to excitedly await any new videos you upload as i have already binged all your previous content and so far every single one has hit the mark for me!

    @Hamring@Hamring Жыл бұрын
  • I read a hypothesis years ago that the Sphinx originally had a lion's head. The hypothesis was that if you look at the proportions of the body, the head is almost comically too small. The hypothesis suggested that the Sphinx was originally just a giant statue of a lion, and sometime later a pharaoh with an ego as large as the statue decided to whittle the lion head down to make it his own image. The shape of the resulting headdress definitely could have been carved from the mane of a lion.

    @obsoletevalues6209@obsoletevalues6209 Жыл бұрын
    • That does have a large ring of truth to it. When you think about the significance of the lion to a pharoah, the protector of the king. I can't off the top of my head remember the name of the goddess with the lion head, but she was the protector of the kings. So.. the plateau with the great lion. Khufu would obviously be interested in such a place or why else would he not have just gone and built near his ancestors?

      @PaulaXism@PaulaXism Жыл бұрын
    • I've heard this too. That's the theory I go with because it just looks weird otherwise

      @whythetechnot5655@whythetechnot565510 ай бұрын
    • The sphinx was already badly weathered in Khufu's time. Some thought the head had originally been a lion, others thought it had been an eagle, but either way you could no longer really see it. So he gave it a cleanup and a facelift.

      @laughingdaffodils5450@laughingdaffodils54504 ай бұрын
    • Well, when you make a sculpture you start with a big block and continue to make it smaller. It could be that they started with the head and intended to carve out the body after that. If for some reason they stopped, it would also explain why the head is so much more refined than the body. Reasons for not carving out the body to the right proportions could be: - They had other priorities like building a pyramid so they postponed but never finished. - The entire statue was ment to be much bigger but the head came out to small. So not carving out the body to the right proportions was the least bad choice. - The nose was broken already during the construction, so finishing it would be an embarrassment. - Or by coincidence they decided halfway that keeping the big body would give the most grandeur. (And there’s an obvious reason why there’s no cartouche: It’s a portrait of the farao himself. No misconceptions possible. The Sphinx was simply not made for future historians, but for contemporary Egyptians. The Rosetta Stone here might well be the statue of Djedefre indeed)

      @corioliseffect1835@corioliseffect1835Ай бұрын
    • That is less likely because the top of the head seems to have been the top of the rock the Sphinx was carved out of, so there wouldn't be a lot of room to recarve the head. It's also not really hard to imagine that they just got the proportions slightly wrong considering the scale and complexity of the project. Though it also seems likely that the size of the head was constrained by fissures in the rock, if you look at the face it has an angle that is the same as the fissures you see on the body of the Sphinx, this likely constrained the size of the head. Of course it could also just be a case of forced perspective, if you look at the Sphinx from its base the head doesn't look small and just looks further away.

      @hedgehog3180@hedgehog3180Ай бұрын
  • I just love your videos. They are smart and your theories make sense. Thank you!

    @bettinaschewe7641@bettinaschewe7641 Жыл бұрын
  • Love your videos. You educate me on Egypt's amazing structure's in every video.

    @aaronsnowden6311@aaronsnowden6311 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for another very interesting video. Given so much erosion to the "walls" of the sphynx, rather than rain it would not surprise me if it been more affected by general nile flooding or even worse something like the minoan eruption which plausibly could have caused a massive tsunami (or perhaps other smaller tsunamis which we are not aware of), and resulting immense erosion effect as a huge quantity of the highly particulated and salt laden water drained.

    @johangamb@johangamb Жыл бұрын
    • Plausible? Why don't you take a look at a map?

      @TheMoneypresident@TheMoneypresident Жыл бұрын
    • As plausible as Aurora Borealis at this time of year located entirely within your kitchen.

      @peterfireflylund@peterfireflylund Жыл бұрын
    • @@TheMoneypresident laugh - good idea, for got how far inland they were :-) so tsunami very unlikely/impossible then, but maybe not major flooding episodes from the Nile.

      @johangamb@johangamb Жыл бұрын
    • "something like the minoan eruption which plausibly could have caused a massive tsunami" Nooooope. The eruption of Thera was catastrophic to be sure - but even just the Nile delta coastline is a long way away from Crete, let alone all the way further upstream (and uphill) to Giza. That being said it is far from impossible that chemical erosion from altered atmospheric composition combined with rainfall may have been significant following the eruption. Sites in the Aegean had the benefit of cover from the pumice ash fall to shield them from later acid rainfall, but this would not have been the case so much further away at Giza. Other possibilities include Nile floods following geological events in the same time in Egypt itself - great eruptions tend to be accompanied by increased geological activity and release of subsurface gases further away from the main activity. If any such release included an acid forming gas beneath a Nile tributary (or the Nile itself) then any flood event would have brought a nasty erosion with it.

      @mnomadvfx@mnomadvfx Жыл бұрын
  • Another point to be considered here is the different size of the head comparing to the body, because they don't seem to match at all. Did Khafre make a necessary change to a monument that was already placed there? Besides, I strongly believe that many secrets are hidden in the interior chambers, but we will probably never have access to them. Thank you sooooo much for these amazing videos, there's so much work behind and I really appreciate it!

    @nefernefer19@nefernefer19 Жыл бұрын
    • Upps, just reading below comments regarding this matter :)

      @nefernefer19@nefernefer19 Жыл бұрын
    • "Did Khafre make a necessary change to a monument that was already placed there?" This is often assumed but it could easily have been Khafre who originally commissioned it and Thutmose IV who turned it into the man headed sculpture we see now when the Dream Stele was created.

      @mnomadvfx@mnomadvfx Жыл бұрын
    • @@mnomadvfx I kind of lean to the idea that Thutmose may have recarved the head into his likeness. It may have been very worn.

      @ashharris7293@ashharris7293 Жыл бұрын
  • Great episode, with some good well thought out ideas 😎

    @p.m3735@p.m3735 Жыл бұрын
  • Very well reasoned arguments, as always. Kudos!

    @ffabris@ffabris Жыл бұрын
  • I always wondered if the head of the Sphinx was originally bigger and then was later recarved in someone else's image. It seems smaller and out of proportion to the rest of its body. Also, why wasn't the causeway placed on the left side of the Sphinx? It would have been a more aligned route coming from the pyramid instead of being angled to the pryamid?

    @johndoe-vf4un@johndoe-vf4un Жыл бұрын
  • As a sculptor, I am pretty sure that the sphinx might pre-date the pyramids because it seems rather obvious that the head was re-carved at a much later date seeing as how it is decidedly out of proportion to the body of the figure. No other Egyptian carving of a lion or sphinx has such a small head.. I would guess that its presence was partly why Giza was chosen for the pyramids built there, And agree that the causeway was used for both Khufu and Khafre’s construction. It seems to me that it was originally a lion headed lion, and and that the muzzle of the lion may have cleaved off due to erosion leaving the carving defaced, and the reason the re-carving ended up so much smaller than would seem proportional. The nemes is about the proportion of what a lion’s neck and head would look like given how wide the shoulders would have been prior to the erosion cause by various levels of burial in sand. As an artist who does figures, it just LOOKS like one the them had the head recarved to represent themself in order to give the work new relevance to their monuments.

    @christopherpardell4418@christopherpardell4418 Жыл бұрын
    • I agree with you 100% and I don't understand why so many people are put off by this theory.... Even a child can tell something just doesn't seem right.

      @thomaslove6494@thomaslove64946 ай бұрын
    • Hah. I should have scrolled down further before making this point myself. Of course many of us have noticed. Every other figure depicted in ancient Egyptian stonework is well proportioned. The mythology and worship of gods represented by the lion is very ancient, preceding Khafre by at least 1500 years. Including one or more that were used as the royal emblem of pharaohs and considered a protector of royalty. Of course, there doesn't seem to be any definitive identification of the construction of the Sphinx, or its alteration if so. Have a look at the picture of the Lion of the Hyksos king Seuserenre Khyan.

      @mjinba07@mjinba075 ай бұрын
    • You know this much but don't know about soldiers shooting the face? Even if it didn't damage much, surely it weakened pieces assisting them in falling off

      @mandelorean6243@mandelorean62435 ай бұрын
    • @@mandelorean6243 Yeah… the stories of French soldiers shooting cannonballs at the sphinx are false. The French army being in Egypt were actually the origin of modern Egyptology and Napoleon ordered his military engineers to survey many of the ruins. Napoleon was fascinated with the remnants of Egyptian empire. There are drawings made of the sphinx that pre-date the French army and they show the same amount of wear as later photography showed. That is the Nose was already gone long before Napoleon showed up. So, Sorry but that was just a yarn made up by tourist guides.

      @christopherpardell4418@christopherpardell44185 ай бұрын
  • Wonderful way to start the weekend! Enjoyed your analysis as usual. Only 10 more videos until Christmas! 😅🎅

    @bswins9648@bswins9648 Жыл бұрын
    • This one took some extra effort, I didn't have a bunch of Sphinx assets handy. I will also be making some shorter videos that don't take as long to produce.

      @HistoryforGRANITE@HistoryforGRANITE Жыл бұрын
  • If the sphinx was a natural rock in a natural depression, which has only been «adjusted» and occasionally «improved», that could explain a lot of the questions: Longer time for erosion, strande angled causeway and so on. It might also have made the Giza plateau a sacred place even before the establishment of organised religion.

    @oletjugen8495@oletjugen8495 Жыл бұрын
    • Organised religion is pretty ambiguous. Both the upper and lower kingdoms of pre dynastic Egypt had their own gods which is why there is no small amount of deity duplication in Egyptian mythology even though the gods of upper Egypt received greatest prominence with Narmer's ascension to the unified pharaonic throne of dynastic Egypt as he was of upper Egypt prior to defeating the king/leader of lower Egypt.

      @mnomadvfx@mnomadvfx Жыл бұрын
  • Love your work and love your approach. At first glance the sphynx looks like a bad "nip-tuck" job on its face. Your way of analysis will not allow you to speculate but....for the love of science...tell me I am not crazy for thinking it was altered long long ago. I don't know what would ever sway me to think that the sphynx is a one piece original. Thanks again for making this channel 🙂

    @droppedlung@droppedlung Жыл бұрын
    • It's highly likely that whatever happened durintgg the Old Kingdom beforehand that Thutmose IV also made renovations to the monument beyond just adding limestone block cladding. "I don't know what would ever sway me to think that the sphynx is a one piece original" It isn't - the cladding blocks are clearly visible.

      @mnomadvfx@mnomadvfx Жыл бұрын
  • Great video, as usual!

    @wheezesanchez5661@wheezesanchez5661 Жыл бұрын
  • Superlative content! thank you for producing it.

    @pablogimenez8369@pablogimenez8369 Жыл бұрын
  • I think the sphinx is important because he puts a face to all that sterile stonework. Without him visitors would see all these huge monuments and think they were the sole province of gods and monsters. With him someone sets foot on the grounds and knows that this is the work of mankind endeavoring to elevate his station.

    @weedwacker1716@weedwacker1716 Жыл бұрын
    • Him?

      @Yeoldelole@Yeoldelole Жыл бұрын
    • @@Yeoldelole it*

      @Rastei@Rastei Жыл бұрын
    • @@Rastei It is much older, and it originally had the head of a lion. After millennia, it was so eroded it was chiseled into a human face.

      @tedolphbundler724@tedolphbundler724 Жыл бұрын
  • Finally an episode on the Sphinx!! Even though it's limestone I still think this is relevant discussion on this channel 👌 💯

    @JonnoPlays@JonnoPlays Жыл бұрын
  • This was very much appreciated, making some great points, explaining them clearly so that even I can understand and learn.👍😃👍

    @petegriffin8149@petegriffin8149 Жыл бұрын
  • Another well thought out vid. THANKS 👍

    @catman8965@catman8965 Жыл бұрын
  • Please do a video about the granite pots UnchartedX has covered. I’d be very interested in hearing your perspective.

    @johngosnell3847@johngosnell3847 Жыл бұрын
    • Agree!

      @milanetc4865@milanetc4865 Жыл бұрын
    • His videos are nonsense. There's nothing about those pots that Egyptians couldn't accomplish. Asking modern machine workers to explain ancient stone cutting techniques they know nothing about is asinine. All they say is "we don't know how they did it, my machines can't do it" which makes sense since their machines aren't used for cutting granite or making artwork. Additionally his expert witnesses aren't experts on ancient stone cutting techniques and have nothing to offer to the conversation. UnchartedX is glad they can't explain it because he makes more money off the mystery never being solved. We already know how they created those jars. Hard stones break softer stones. Sand can be used to smooth objects. UnchartedX never mentions any ancient stone cutting techniques and simply dismisses them out of hand. If you break away from being hypnotized by his channel and do your own research you'll learn how the made the objects and the explanation makes perfect sense. The ancient people had tons of time on their had and knew more about stone working than we know today. Saying they couldn't complete a simple vase is actually racist because you're saying these human beings are actually sub human. They are the same humans we are today with the same brain and the same ability to reason and solve problems. To assume anything less of them is really doing them a disservice. Why couldn't they do it? What's so perfect about the vases that the ancient people couldn't complete the project? You'll never get that answer from the UnchartedX channel because like I said he's going to profit off the mystery never being solved. Just follow the money and you can see where his motivation lies.

      @JonnoPlays@JonnoPlays Жыл бұрын
    • ​​@@JonnoPlays SGD Sacred Geometry Decoded and scientists against myths debunked unchartedX so many times. Its so unfortunate people like him, Bright Insight, Graham Hancock etc. Get to go on Joe Rogan and spread their bullshit. Meanwhile actual archeologists get a fraction of that attention.

      @_MikeJon_@_MikeJon_ Жыл бұрын
    • Bassically they probably discovered clay pots and figured "well it doesnt look as good but now we have 100 pots in the time it used to take to make 1" Also you see how they were used as a treasure in djosers tomb. Where as later uses they had more gold and silver. Makes sense, before you have advanced mining techniques, well crafted stone would be your best luxury artisan good.

      @Sgt.chickens@Sgt.chickens Жыл бұрын
    • @@JonnoPlays Absolutely! I'm so glad that these crucial pieces of nuance are finally making it to the youtube comments sections. It used to be a complete Hancockian wasteland of misrepresentations.

      @jellyrollthunder3625@jellyrollthunder3625 Жыл бұрын
  • Why don’t more people bring up the fact that the sphinx’s head isn’t proportion to its body? Especially when the Egyptian’s were masters at scaling objects and proportions.

    @bryangordon8518@bryangordon8518 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for your effort👍Great as usual

    @anmaniemann@anmaniemann Жыл бұрын
  • Another excellent video! Thank you!!

    @ForbiddenMagic@ForbiddenMagic Жыл бұрын
  • Was the Nile once right next to the Sphinx? If so, I believe it possible it was fashioned from a natural formation and used as fulcrum base, used as a loading crane base. Large stones floated to the "paws", and a very long beam would make lifting enormous stones rather easy, and it could swivel to either side to offload

    @rogerscottcathey@rogerscottcathey Жыл бұрын
  • Your channel is growing really fast man, congrats! I'm usually not competative, but i have to point out that after 2 years of making over 100 videos on my channel, i have reached "only" 11k subs, and you blasted that out of the water with your channel! To be fair, my videos are in my native language of serbian, which is spoken by 20 million people, so i think i'm doing really well tbh :) Anyways, your channel is awesome, really awe inspiring and interesting! I follow you almost from the start, and your every video is better than the previous one, just keep at it its really good! Greetings from a fellow youtuber from Belgrade, Serbia!

    @Gravitacionimanevar@Gravitacionimanevar Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you so much for your support since the very beginning! I never expected to grow much in the first year, and it's still not obvious to me why some videos do better than others. Your videos are great, and it's only natural that a Serbian-language channel would have a smaller audience. Supposedly KZhead is testing options to have additional audio tracks to support other languages, so perhaps that will change the game. And can you introduce me to fellow Serbian Novak Djokovic? He's been my favorite tennis player since 2008. Haha.

      @HistoryforGRANITE@HistoryforGRANITE Жыл бұрын
    • @@HistoryforGRANITE I wish i knew Djokovic, i have the same last name as him btw, but i don't think we're related :D. The part about some videos doing great and some not is still a mystery to me and i experience it all the time, but i guess that the algorithm is simply making strange decisions. For example, a video about the rovers on Mars on my channel is getting viewed much less than for example a video about the moon of Jupiter ie Callisto, which in my mind seems like a less well known topic. It all boils down to the title and the thumbnail sadly, and i still havent figured out what works well and what doesn't :D

      @Gravitacionimanevar@Gravitacionimanevar Жыл бұрын
  • Superb work! 👏👏👏

    @AncientArchitects@AncientArchitects Жыл бұрын
    • High praise from a Sphinx expert!

      @HistoryforGRANITE@HistoryforGRANITE Жыл бұрын
  • This is an excellent channel. What a find!

    @WarrenPeace007@WarrenPeace0074 ай бұрын
  • Personally as time goes on I only become more and more convinced that the original sphinx pre dated Egyptian culture altogether. I think it was the reason why the Egyptians chose Giza as a building site in the first place. I imagine it was originally a large carving of a feline, which inspired the Egyptian reverence for cats, and was already eroded from rains before they found it. The pharoah head was presumably a later addition, perhaps during one of the earliest restorations. Notice how disproportionately small the head is compared to the body. I posit that it used to have a full sized feline head which at some point eroded and partially collapsed, thus motivating the Egyptian culture to restore it and carve the pharaoh head with the remaining stone.

    @disgruntledwookie369@disgruntledwookie369 Жыл бұрын
    • Why would the pharaoh create the sphinx with a tiny head in his image? I have yet to see any other statue or idol where the proportions were off by this much. The Egyptians tried hard to show symmetry in their images and sculptures.

      @EQ_EnchantX@EQ_EnchantX Жыл бұрын
    • "I imagine it was originally a large carving of a feline, which inspired the Egyptian reverence for cats" The only reason for people to thing it is a cat/lion specifically is the Hancock/Leo thing about the orientation of the Sphinx pointing to the constellation Leo from 12,000 years ago. It's just as likely that it was a falcon considering the god of the Memphite necropolis (of which Giza is part) was Seker - not to mention the oft used ancient reference for the monument was Horemakhet (Horus in the Horizon). A falcon head actually matches up with the ancient obsession with bird headed creatures with feline claws (aka griffins/gryphons/shirdals).

      @mnomadvfx@mnomadvfx Жыл бұрын
  • What I can say for sure is that the Sphinx's head we see today is not the original. It is too small compared to the whole body. It must have been bigger and showing someone else's face.

    @karacop78@karacop78 Жыл бұрын
    • Or a feline head. The profile is all over the place and doesn't look like a normal human face shape at all, but it makes a bit more sense if it used to be an animal head and the stonemasons did their best trying to change it to look like a human face. They had more stone to work with in the lower face area but very little in the forehead area, because big cats don't have much of a forehead.

      @kragary@kragary Жыл бұрын
    • @@kragary Very possible, I've seen a reconstruction sketched from a century ago with something like that, which from side view looks very well proportioned on the existing body, in contrary with today's small headed one.

      @karacop78@karacop78 Жыл бұрын
  • Un análisis genial y refrescante acercandote a la hipótesis de Jean Pierre Houdin y alejandote del "academicismo rancio" de Lehner y Hawass. Me encanta la calidad de tu canal y los canales que recomiendas.

    @TUTUSPAIN1@TUTUSPAIN1 Жыл бұрын
  • Another great video. Well done Sir.

    @abloke8834@abloke8834 Жыл бұрын
  • The fact that the sphinx has NO OBVIOUS WATER EROSION AT THE TOP of the sculpture could mean that the area was under water (like Venice, which has a super low tide as of feb 2023) and people just "redesigned a new entity" from the original base sculpture

    @dennisholmes7782@dennisholmes7782 Жыл бұрын
    • That isn't too surprising if you remember that head of the sphinx is likely a natural outcrop - which it means it was much tougher and harder to erode.

      @thealmightyaku-4153@thealmightyaku-41536 ай бұрын
  • I have heard that there is another structure that some consider to have been a second sphinx, facing the opposite direction. I have only seen close-up pictures so I don't know exactly where it is. It doesn't have a head ( guards have said the head was broken off) but part of the neck is still there. I'm curious to know what your opinion is on whether or not it was a second sphinx, presuming you've heard of it. Thank you for the outstanding videos!

    @ellen4956@ellen4956 Жыл бұрын
  • Excellent presentation. Numerous questions remain including those mentioned and climate/weathering rates over the eons.

    @user-gf7zf9sx7w@user-gf7zf9sx7w6 ай бұрын
  • I love the discussion of whether the Sphinx was a previous, or contemporary construction of Khafre's pyramid. But I'm curious if there's any evidence that necessarily rules out the possibility that it was constructed later. I'd love to hear back from the creator. The moment I discovered your channel I binged every, single, video... can't get enough. Thanks for all your wonderful content!

    @NeedlessPedantics@NeedlessPedantics Жыл бұрын
    • I think a later construction of the Sphinx would still have the problem of explaining the temple/causeway alignment. It seems unlikely the Sphinx would have been excavated after the Sphinx Temple - because then what was the temple there for?

      @HistoryforGRANITE@HistoryforGRANITE Жыл бұрын
    • @@HistoryforGRANITE Thank you so much for the reply. That's my assessment as well, though granted it's based mainly on your information. I suppose I was more specifically curious if there was any objective/definitive evidence that confirms that it is at least contemporary. Such as a dated hieroglyphic record referring to the Sphinx dated to that age or earlier. Thanks again.

      @NeedlessPedantics@NeedlessPedantics Жыл бұрын
  • This is a perfect example of taking to task both inflexible Present Consensus believers and alternative universe [ancient civilizations, aliens, Atlanteans and other crackpot] believers! Thanks for your continued, solid as granite, critical thinking and pro-science videos.

    @JMM33RanMA@JMM33RanMA Жыл бұрын
  • Another great vid, thanks!

    @paull8678@paull8678 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you so much!

      @HistoryforGRANITE@HistoryforGRANITE Жыл бұрын
  • This is one of the best channels on KZhead and I love everything about ancient Egypt. I have two questions about the Sphynx that may have already been asked, so forgive me, but here goes. 1: Why do we assume the pharaohs modeled the sphinx head after themselves and their headdresses, and not the other way around? If they were a spiritual people, and this giant head was already there, wouldn't it be plausible that they would model their own culture after something that may have been placed there by a god? And 2: Given the radically different construction methods between the Sphinx and pyramids, why would we assume the same people made them? Or why would we assume they were constructed in anywhere near the same time period?

    @user-op2ho7xx2g@user-op2ho7xx2g3 ай бұрын
    • 1) I agree. Egyptians wander into the area and are impressed by what they see. They start to wear headdresses that mimic the look of the sphinx. 2) It's possible that the Sphinx is much more complex, if you were able to go into its interior or go under it to be able to see.

      @scottbreseke716@scottbreseke716Ай бұрын
  • I'm so tired of this platitude. Extraordinary claims do not require extraordinary evidence, they just require evidence. Once there is evidence to support the claim it is no longer extraordinary.

    @billdewahl7007@billdewahl7007 Жыл бұрын
    • I agree, it's being used in situations where it isn't required. However, I think the original standard quoted by Sagan is quite important when assessing the scientific method. If you come with claims that turn reality upside down, like aliens or some nonsense, you'd better have something more than a fuzzy out of focus video.

      @stuartculshaw5342@stuartculshaw534217 күн бұрын
  • My opinion is that the sphinx was not a spinx for most of it's pesky lifetime. Just an outcropping (small mountain) of low grade limestone that was eventually turned into a sphinx because it became an eye sore. Alternately it may have had some other useful purpose before that so it was avoided until that purpose was no longer relevant. Perhaps there was a guard tower there, or the hill had some older religious or historical significance or it was used as a crane station or a calendar keeping device or something. The possibilities are endless as to why you would keep a hill around in a mostly flat topography.

    @MrBottlecapBill@MrBottlecapBill Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for the pyramid videos, i always enjoy this fine work.

    @monsterinhead214@monsterinhead214 Жыл бұрын
  • Another thoroughly enjoyable and very intelligent video, thanks.

    @hawkeye1370@hawkeye1370 Жыл бұрын
  • You don't put a sphinx in front of those pyramids and then have its proportions wrong so badly. Whatever head the sphinx had initially, it was way bigger. It probably stuck out while the rest of the body was completely covered by sand for millenia. The erosion that affected the head for millenia led to a way worse eroded head, compared to the body which was protected by sand, the erosion got so bad the head became unrecognisable, so a "new" head was carved out of the old one. No matter if the squinx initially was a lion or any other animal or not, i find it honestly quite insulting and offensive towards the egyptian culture of the time to believe they would've constructed a sculpture so off and unpleasing and the Pharaos would've kept it standing in front of those perfect pyramids just behind it.

    @yallahyallah4220@yallahyallah4220 Жыл бұрын
  • Great work! I was chafing but your last dig satisfied me.

    @reginaldinoenchillada3513@reginaldinoenchillada3513 Жыл бұрын
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