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originally posted by: purplemer
Here below is an aerial photograph of the great Sphinx. It is worth noting that aerial photography in the area is restricted. If you look at the top of the head you will note a round lighter coloured patch. It looks like it has been altered
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originally posted by: DARKMINDEDSTAR
Nice write-up on the Sphinx! I did some basic digging and found this article from 2000. Goes on to discuss the known holes, openings, and entrances at the time and also documents cavities within the Sphinx and who made what "discoveries".
I wish I could travel to these exotic locations and do my own research and post raw and uneditied photos and videos. httpp://www.catchpenny.org/passages.html
Baraize also paved with cement a deep hole on the top of the Sphinx's head. The hole measures approximately 5 feet square and nearly 6 feet deep. An iron trap door was fitted to the mouth of the hole. It has been theorized that the hole, began as a means for affixing a headdress to the sphinx in the manner of the New Kingdom (see photo below), was later deepened in search of hidden chambers.
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Nyiah
if it's just a pit why cover it up with an entrance>
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Nyiah
isn't there a theory out there that the head was carved and originally had the head of anubis?
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: MotherMayEye
now that I think of it it looks like it may have been seriously eroded before they even carved the head out again in the first place. look at the size proportions of the legs to the body as well
originally posted by: waftist
Love this stuff, thanks for your effort and input.
Honestly though, after reading ATS for years,I just can't draw too many conclusions about ancient Egypt here on the boards without Harte and/or merka's input , even as disabling and disenchanting as it can be, haha.
originally posted by: merka
Going by the guy standing in it, I believe its just a hole for something that once fixed on the head of the sphinx. Possibly a slanted tophat. Egyptians knew style.
He also created a list of Egyptian viceroys of Kush. He found the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I, the mother of King Khufu (Cheops in Greek) who built the Great Pyramid at Giza. During this time he also explored mastabas. Arthur Merton (London Times) remarked in 1936 in the aftermath of the Abuwtiyuw discovery that Reisner "enjoys an unrivalled position not only as the outstanding figure in present-day Egyptology, but also as a man whose soundness of judgement and extensive general knowledge are widely conceded."[2]