The Sphinx: When Was It Really Built and Why - Part 1 of 3 by justin spring - HTML preview

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What were Giza and the Nile Delta like in 6000-3200 B.C.?

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Well, one reason is that it is highly likely that if the face was carved in 6000 B.C. and the head, front chest and limbs by 5600 B.C.,  it is very probable that all original knowledge about the creation of the Sphinx's face  would have been lost  by 3000 B.C..

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I believe there was, however,  a  very old  preliterate connection  (c.6000 B.C. and perhaps even earlier) between the predecessor of the Sphinx (my suggested "Veiled face" at Giza) and  the location of what was to eventually become Heliopolis. The first indication of that older connection took the form of  a Sphinx/Ra  cult emerging c. 2686 B.C. that  continued to flourish under different names  until around 1070 B.C.