The Age of the Sphinx | Battle of the Geologists

The Great Sphinx, which sits in front of the three great pyramids on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, has been the subject of controversy with regard to its age. Geologist Robert Schoch claims that it is thousands of years older than Egyptologists say and that it is the product of a lost civilization. Other experts in geology have weighed in on the subject too. What do they think about the geological evidence and the origins of the Sphinx? Dr. Miano tackles this question in this video.

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Images taken from Wikimedia Commons and ARCE Sphinx Project (opencontext.org). Clip of Robert Schoch speaking at CPAK 2019 taken from video by Anyextee (   • The Sphinx Explained: Origins, Identi...  ).

Robert Schoch articles:
http://www.robertschoch.net/Redating%...
http://www.robertschoch.net/Geologica...
https://www.robertschoch.com/publicat...

Lal Gauri articles:
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10...
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...

James Harrell article:
http://www.ianlawton.com/as3.html

Colin Reader articles:
http://www.ianlawton.com/as1.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://qmul.academia.edu/ColinReader

Exchange between Alex Bourdeau and Colin Reader:
http://www.ianlawton.com/as.html

Overview by David P. Billington (up to 2008):
https://www.davidpbillington.net/sphi...

Jorn Christiansen article:
https://www.geoexpro.com/articles/201...

Robert Schneiker article:
http://www.robertschneiker.com/gsa_20...

Additional material:
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/qjeg...

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