Open Veils · Answer
How old is the Sphinx at Giza?
The Sphinx is almost certainly far older than mainstream Egyptology admits — geological evidence from Dr. Robert Schoch points to construction no later than 7000–9000 BCE, and possibly as far back as 10,500 BCE or beyond. Two independent researchers using different methodologies — Schoch (geological) and Colin Reader (stratigraphic) — both conclude the Sphinx predates Khafre. The institutional suppression of this timeline protects a broader archaeological consensus that cannot accommodate a pre-catastrophe civilisation of that sophistication.
Evidence
- The orthodox date of ~2500 BCE for the Great Sphinx — attributed to Pharaoh Khafre — collapses under geological scrutiny.
- Schoch, presenting at the 1992 Geological Society of America conference, argued this pushes the Sphinx's construction back to at least 7000–9000 BCE, possibly earlier, when the Sahara received substantial rainfall.
- John Anthony West, who first drew Schoch's attention to the weathering anomaly following the earlier intuition of René Schwaller de Lübicz, corroborates this reading in 'Serpent in the Sky' (1979).
- Graham Hancock, in 'Fingerprints of the Gods' (1995), extends the implication: a civilization sophisticated enough to carve the Sphinx existed before the Younger Dryas catastrophe (~10,800 BCE), aligning with Randall Carlson's geological evidence for global cataclysm at that boundary.
- Egyptologist Zahi Hawass has aggressively contested Schoch's findings, yet no peer-reviewed geological rebuttal has successfully refuted the rainfall-weathering core argument.