WHO REALLY SCULPTED THE SPHINX?
As can be seen from this aerial photo, the Sphinx is a stone colossus in the middle of a ‘basin’ that is closed on three sides, particularly the back and two sides. For at least 3,5000 years, the area around the Sphinx has been an arid sand desert. As the sand in Egypt has been moved continuously by the wind over the past millennia, under normal conditions the wind carries the sand into the Sphinx's ‘basin’, filling it completely. The sand then covers the entire ‘basin’ up to the height of the statue's neck, whose head is roughly at the...
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