For years, Egyptologists and archaeologists have thought the Great Sphinx of Giza to be about 4,500 years old, dating to around 2500 BC. But that number is just that ― a belief, a theory, not a fact. As Robert Bauval says in The Age of the Sphinx, “there was no inscriptions ― not a single one ― either carved on a wall or a stela or written on the throngs of papyri that associates the Sphinx with this time period.” So when was it built?

John Anthony West, an author and alternative Egyptologist, challenged the accepted age of the monument when he noted the vertical weathering on its base, which could only have been caused by long exposure to water in the form of heavy rains. Rains! In the middle of the desert? Where did the water come from?

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It so happens that this area of the world experienced such rains ― about 8,000–10,500 years ago! This would make the Sphinx more than twice its currently accepted age. On the other hand, author Robert Bauval, who is perhaps best known for the Orion Correlation Theory regarding the Giza Pyramid Complex, and his colleague, Graham Hancock, have calculated that the Great Pyramid (Sphinx) likewise dates back to around 10,500 BC.

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