Carved out of solid stone, the Sphinx gazes out across the Egyptian desert, away from the pyramid under which it lays. It's body is severely eroded although the Egyptian government is now restoring it. What caused this heavy decay?
The Sphinx is made out of a hard stone indigenous to the area, was the erosion just from being pelted by sand during wind storms, similar to sandblasting.
Archaeologists think not! Not from a sandblasting effect any how! Perhaps water also came into play in the erosion process. Geologist's agree that in the ancient past Egypt was the victim of severe flooding. This is thought to be from a time when the sea table was nine feet higher than it is today.
When the North American ice fields melted creating Lake Agassi, a glacier lake in the upper northern United States and adjoining Canada.
Most flood myth's contain a culture hero who strives to ensure his rebirth. Many believe that flood myths' originated from the findings of fossils, seashells and fish skeletal remains in unusual places such as mountain tops.
Native Americans also expressed this belief in their early encounters with the European's. Some geologists theorize that great and instant flooding of rivers in the distant past might have influenced these legends.
Tidal waves could also be part of this theory in coastal areas. The Ryan Pittman theory argues that around 5600 BC, a catastrophic flood occurred from the Mediterranean Sea and flowed into the Black Sea.
There is also speculation that a large tidal wave from the Thera eruption dated 1630-1600 B.C. Was part of folklore that evolved into Deucelion myth.
The tidal wave hit the Aegean Sea and Crete but it did not affect the Greek islands. Because the Thera Title wave didn't affect Greece one can conclude that the wave had a local versus a regional effect.
There is also the thought that a meteor or a comet crashed into the Indian Ocean around 3000 BCE, which created the Burckle Crater and generated a tidal wave that flooded coastal lands.
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Lake Agassi which covered most of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota and eastern North Dakota had significant drainage periods in 13000 BC And 8400 BC.
The last drainage occurred when Hudson Bay area had a dramatic warming and Hudson Bay melted. This massive lake drained into the Mississippi River Valley, and into the Gulf or Mexico.
It also was draining into Lake Superior, and Hudson Bay, which leads into the Arctic ocean.This lake was larger than all of the Great Lakes combined in volume of water, it contained more water than all of the lakes in the world today combined.
This occurred in less than a year and raised the world wide water levels by nine feet. This had a significant impact on climate, sea levels, and possibly early human civilizations world wide.
A major influx of fresh water was released into the Arctic Ocean which had an effect on ocean currants, and a cooling of the oceans.The 13,000 B.C. drainage is associated with the Big Freeze! This lasted seventy years, which happened 12,800 years ago. It is thought that this happened as a result of the melting of North American ice fields.
The interesting point is, based on geological evidence, the Sphinx is older than Egypt itself! This makes us return to legends of Egyptian Pharaoh's being descendants of god's or extraterrestrials from the Sirius star system, known as Osiris.
The Pharaoh's considered themselves to be direct descendants of Osiris and the legends of the Indus Valley, the Sumerian’s and Atlantis give credence to these legends.
The Sphinx is thought to represent Pharaoh Chephren. There were several statues of the Pharaoh in the temple next to the Sphinx. The head of the Sphinx is quite small in proportion to it's body. Some feel that at one time it had a more natural looking head, they feel at some point it was re-carved.
The Temple next to the Sphinx was built out of granite blocks, the hardest substance on mother earth with the exception of diamonds, these blocks weighed over 100 tons apiece.
The blocks are fitted together in a geometric pattern and were interlocked together like a jigsaw puzzle. It is interesting to compare this method of construction to that of Cuzco, Sacsayhuaman, Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu.
This method of construction is often found in ancient megalithic construction, in some of the worlds most remote and inhospitable areas,
There is a complicated maze of underground secret tunnels and rooms beneath the Giza Plateau, these tunnels lead to various pyramids starting from the Sphinx.
These passageways are associated with the Mystical Schools of Egypt. A shaft in the Giza Plateau leads to a subterranean area known as Cambell's Tomb.
As one looks down the shaft one notices a steel grate obstructing a passage into the shaft leading towards Cambells Tomb.The shaft is fifteen feet square and runs 100 feet deep.
On each side of the shaft leading to Cambells Tomb are many tunnels that exit from the shaft. These tunnels are part of a network of tunnels going beneath Giza Plateau.
It is extremely dangerous to penetrate these tunnels and subterranean rooms weather they are caverns, part of a cave system or artificially made.
The legends and myths of ancient Egypt are quite prolific.
Some believe based on these legends that the lost library of Atlantis is hidden beneath Giza Plateau. This library is referred to as the “Ancient Hall of Records”. Some believe that the Ancient Hall of Records contain “Sacred Knowledge” in the form of “quartz crystals” similar to a hologram being encoded by a laser today.