Did the Great Sphinx of Egypt Originally Have a Different Head?

We know for most of its life the Sphinx has been buried up to the shoulders and neck in sand. I've seen other places at Giza, the sand tends to protect the rocks that are buried beneath it.
The head's been exposed for almost the entire life of the Sphinx. It's been exposed to wind-blown sand, the effect of the Sun...if anything,the head should be more degraded than the body, but we see the reverse. And for me, there's only one real explanation for that. And that's that the head has been recut.
At a later stage, whatever was there originally, was retrimmed and reprofiled, to give us this pharaoh's head. The inescapable conclusion from that, is that originally this wasn't a Sphinx at all. It started life as something different.

nicko wrote:When the whole body was uncovered it was thought [in some places] that the lines along the body were the result of wave action caused by the sphinx being in water!!

Didge wrote:

nicko wrote:When the whole body was uncovered it was thought [in some places] that the lines along the body were the result of wave action caused by the sphinx being in water!!

Hi Nicko

From what I have read, a Geologist by the name of Robert Schoch, was once asked to see what sort of weathering damage had been done to monuments in some photos. He was not told that he was actually looking at pictures of the sphinx.
He concluded that the damage was caused by water, in fact rain to be precise and thus when he was then told the pictures were of the Sphinx,he realized how earth shattering news this was. Clearly for such rain damage to happen, it would mean placing the Sphinx back into an earlier period of time, way earlier, when there was plenty of rain.

It is hotly disputed this now the age of the Sphinx, anyway more to read here if you are interested.

http://www.robertschoch.com/sphinxcontent.html

Tesstacious wrote:

Didge wrote:

nicko wrote:When the whole body was uncovered it was thought [in some places] that the lines along the body were the result of wave action caused by the sphinx being in water!!

Hi Nicko

From what I have read, a Geologist by the name of Robert Schoch, was once asked to see what sort of weathering damage had been done to monuments in some photos. He was not told that he was actually looking at pictures of the sphinx.
He concluded that the damage was caused by water, in fact rain to be precise and thus when he was then told the pictures were of the Sphinx,he realized how earth shattering news this was. Clearly for such rain damage to happen, it would mean placing the Sphinx back into an earlier period of time, way earlier, when there was plenty of rain.

It is hotly disputed this now the age of the Sphinx, anyway more to read here if you are interested.

http://www.robertschoch.com/sphinxcontent.html

I love all this stuff.  Reading that link Didge, it does seem more than likely that the original statue was much bigger and was of a lion.  Imagine what it took to build that!  I wonder what sort of civilization existed back then?

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tesstacious wrote:
I love all this stuff.  Reading that link Didge, it does seem more than likely that the original statue was much bigger and was of a lion.  Imagine what it took to build that!  I wonder what sort of civilization existed back then?

A culture of cowboys!  ::=|Q:: 

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/cattle.htm

Hard to imagine in the desert that Egypt is in now ... just goes to show how environmental changes can change a people.

Tesstacious wrote:

Didge wrote:


Hi Nicko

From what I have read, a Geologist by the name of Robert Schoch, was once asked to see what sort of weathering damage had been done to monuments in some photos. He was not told that he was actually looking at pictures of the sphinx.
He concluded that the damage was caused by water, in fact rain to be precise and thus when he was then told the pictures were of the Sphinx,he realized how earth shattering news this was. Clearly for such rain damage to happen, it would mean placing the Sphinx back into an earlier period of time, way earlier, when there was plenty of rain.

It is hotly disputed this now the age of the Sphinx, anyway more to read here if you are interested.

http://www.robertschoch.com/sphinxcontent.html

I love all this stuff.  Reading that link Didge, it does seem more than likely that the original statue was much bigger and was of a lion.  Imagine what it took to build that!  I wonder what sort of civilization existed back then?

Didge wrote:

nicko wrote:When the whole body was uncovered it was thought [in some places] that the lines along the body were the result of wave action caused by the sphinx being in water!!

Hi Nicko

From what I have read, a Geologist by the name of Robert Schoch, was once asked to see what sort of weathering damage had been done to monuments in some photos. He was not told that he was actually looking at pictures of the sphinx.
He concluded that the damage was caused by water, in fact rain to be precise and thus when he was then told the pictures were of the Sphinx,he realized how earth shattering news this was. Clearly for such rain damage to happen, it would mean placing the Sphinx back into an earlier period of time, way earlier, when there was plenty of rain.

It is hotly disputed this now the age of the Sphinx, anyway more to read here if you are interested.

http://www.robertschoch.com/sphinxcontent.html

Sassy wrote:OMG really, now that really is a let down!

Cass wrote:

Sassy wrote:OMG really, now that really is a let down!

yup! it was sort of anti-climatic - you recognise it but I dunno bit of a letdown?!..and at the bottom of the great pyramid is graffiti! !!!! again Giza is now just a suburb.....the pyramids are set apart but its not like I had imagined.