Egypt: The Sphinx of Giza has a large hole in its head
The Sphinx of Giza stands a short distance from the pyramids. It was carved into a rock spur, with a human head and a lion's body to which the front legs were added. The face is perhaps a portrait of Chefren, disfigured by the cannon fire of the Mamluks, who had used it as a target for shooting.
The reason for the fusion of the two elements, zoomorphic and human, in a monumental sculpture is still obscure and there is not even a document on its religious meaning. Perhaps, in his appearance as a crouching lion, the Sphinx had to watch over the funerary complex of the pyramids, but there has been no shortage of other interpretations regarding his function and there are still some doubts about the exact dating. It is not even known whether the head and the body were created at very different times.
Based on the deterioration of the body, some scholars have attributed the Sphinx to be 8000 years older than the date officially accepted: the erosion of the statue would not have been caused by the wind or sandstorms, but by the rain water that would have hit the thousand-year-old colossus during the postglacial period, from 10500 BC. Chefren would then only be the restorer of the monument to which, on the occasion, he would give his face.
The date 10,500 BC, which moves the hands of history back and presupposes the existence of a civilization that evolved many millennia before the Egyptian one, pleases other researchers who have opened an interminable controversy since 1979...
The Sphinx has the same shape as the constellation Leo: just look at any astrology manual to notice it. Now, in 10500 BC, the Sun rose precisely in the constellation of Leo and the Sphinx, built with its gaze facing east, on the day of the spring equinox of that year saw the constellation of Leo, i.e. itself, rising behind the Sun.
All this, of course, does not scientifically prove that the Sphinx was built 8000 years before what tradition established, but for some it is a hypothesis as valid as the one that attributes the work to Chefren. Why would he have positioned it in the east, also giving it the shape of a constellation that the Sphinx had not seen for many centuries?
Seen through the eyes of the stars, the Sphinx therefore appears like a thousand-year clock whose hands point to 10,500 BC. which returns obsessively in studies on the pyramids.
However, the question I want to bring to your attention is: what did the workers do in 1925 on the head of the Sphinx? What did they find?
This image was taken on December 15, 1925, and shows the restoration by E. Baraize. The perspective is interesting because the archaeologist involved in the excavation is working in the hole produced by a crown made on the head of the monument.
A trap door?
Today the Sphinx has no traces of this hole.
The opening, from what you can see from the photo, seems perfectly circular, as if it had been made with an auger.
The next photo is a recent photo of the Sphinx, and the "hole" seems to be covered, either by a trapdoor, or walled in (because the darker circular halo can be glimpsed).
At this point I became curious and wanted to see if I could find any other similar photos online, which could prove (perhaps at least in part) this "curiosity" peculiarity of the Sphinx's head.
But to my great surprise I didn't find anything and another anomaly - or just a simple coincidence - consists in the type of photos available online: the photos depicting the Sphinx are all in profile or frontal, none that framed the Sphinx from above.
And in an era in which, with Google Maps, you can see practically everything from above, even with the notable help of technology (drones), this is rather curious...
One of the mysteries of the Sphinx, fueled by popular legends, is certainly the presence of hidden passages inside it. Currently, the origin of only one of them is known: a short dead-end gap behind the head, made in the 19th century by John Shae Perring and Howard Vyse while searching for a secret chamber inside the body. The hypothesis that there are hidden chambers inside the monument has no scientific support even if the latest excavations in 2007 revealed the presence of a dense network of tunnels. The room of records is a mythical library buried beneath the sphinx of Giza, which some say contains all the knowledge of the ancient Egyptians on papyrus scrolls, as well as the history of the lost continent of Atlantis.
On January 30, 1929, Professor Reisner, professor of Egyptology at Harvard University, communicated to his authorities at Harvard and Boston that he had found the tomb of Menesse (Menes, considered the first pharaoh of the historical era by official Egyptology , ed.) in the Temple of the Sun, subjected to the colossal Sphinx of Giza.
Gennaro D'Amato talks about it in his book "The trial of Plato's Atlantis":
"A great scholar, whose research had always been financed by Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the discoverer of the underground chamber of Queen Hetep-Heres, the mother of the great Pharaoh Cheops. A great archaeologist, in short."
By reading his biography I did not find even a hint regarding the episode of his statement of January 30, 1929 on the underground temple to the Sphinx. (... )
Furthermore, looking at his scientific publications, I noticed that there was a "gap" of 8 years, from 1926 to 1933, in which he seemed to have no longer written anything interesting. Possible?
I went even deeper. Basically I thought: "Okay, you can't always write, and I don't think that later they made him disappear papers and documents relating to the studies and excavations on the Sphinx but, in any case, who or which institution now held all the archives of Reisner?".
I searched again and came to a very disheartening answer: the Semitic Museum of Harvard University and in particular Dr. Mark Lehner who, in this period, was setting up an exhibition with a lot of material by the late Reisner.
Exhibition entitled: "The Sphinx and the Pyramids - 100 years of American archeology at Giza". Mark Lehner!
..According to Bauvall, beneath the Sphinx there would be an ancient Documentation Room of Atlantis, containing all the lost wisdom of the imaginary continent; (... )
John West in 1993 went with an expedition to Egypt and analyzed the Sphinx.
Result: it shows signs of river erosion at least 10,000 years old.
Therefore, it cannot have been built 4500 years ago by the Egyptians, but by a much older civilization. The Atlanteans!
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