Today, let’s step back a few thousand years. Let’s go take a look at Egypt’s Sphinx.

The Modern Riddle of the Sphinx is a collection of information by an astronomer who is clearly just a tad obsessed with her subject.

She presents several theories about the enigmatic creature that strays from mainstream thought. That’s okay, perhaps we SHOULD question mainstream thought on occasion.

For instance, she presents evidence that the Sphinx was constructed by a civilization that predates that of Egypt by thousands of years. Check out the evidence:

“In 1991, Dr. Robert Schoch, a prominent geologist and professor from Boston University, examined the unique weathering patterns on the Sphinx and its enclosure. His conclusions, which came after several months of analysis, were to convulse the world of archaeology. The vertical weathering patterns on the Sphinx and its enclosure, Schoch argued, were not caused by wind effect, as had previously been thought, but by water - water from torrential rains pouring down in sheets over these ancient structures. But how could this be? Was Schoch saying that such heavy rains only fell on the Sphinx area but nowhere else at Giza?

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