I haven´t seen
this “special edition” of "The Mystery of the Sphinx", but I did watch the original documentary, narrated by
none other than Charlton Heston of “Planet of the Apes” and later NRA fame. I
admit it´s an intriguing, even funny, story. Fringe theorist John Anthony West
(also known as JAW) claimed that the Sphinx at Giza must be much older than
modern Egyptologists allow for. Nobody took JAW seriously, so he decided to
hire a geologist to actually investigate the matter. Sensationally, Robert
Schoch (the geologist in question) confirmed that the Sphinx is thousands of
years older than hitherto believed?!
Of course,
Egyptologists were not amused and rejected his claims. Undaunted, Schoch went
further and became a fringe theorist himself, at present being a frequent
contributor to “Atlantis Rising” magazine. Which, surprise, made it even easier
to debunk his claims.
Personally, I
haven´t got the faintest idea how old the Sphinx is (everyone seems to agree
that the head is indeed from the time of Pharaoh Khafre), but I´m open to the
idea of a Lost Civilization on other grounds – or rather lost civilizations in
the plural, which presumably vanished in a world-wide cataclysm at the end of
the last Ice Age. If the big cat at Giza is part of this mysterious legacy
remains to be seen…
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