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The Sphinx is now generally thought to have been built during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafre (2520-94 BC), with head and face carved into Khafre’s likeness. Centuries later, the pharaoh Thutmose IV (late-13th century BC) dreamed of the Sphinx, which prompted him to restore the monument and setan inscribed stone between the Sphinx’s front paws,now known as the‘Dream Stela’.
In 1993 the late lecturer and guide John Anthony West and the geologist Robert Schoch presented a TV documentary challenging the conventional c.2500 BC dating of the carving of the Sphinx; they contended that weathering on its body and the surrounding enclosure walls could only have been caused by prolonged rainfall between 10,000-5000 BC (West) or 5000-7000 BC (Schoch). Their documentary also suggested that the monument had been carved by an ancient advanced culture. Just how long the Sphinx has been in existence is now hotly disputed…
Hancock and Bauval have much to say about the Sphinx’s names, and note that its traditional 12th-century Arabic name was Abul-Hol(‘Father of Terror’),used by the writers Abdel-Latif and (later) El-Makrizi.
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