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One of the survey's participants, the geophysicist Thomas Dobecki, argued that seismography showed a possibly man-made chamber under the sphinx's right paw. These claims were incorporated in the 1993 television documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx, which also mentioned Cayce's prediction about the Hall of Records. [30]
The Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of the king's reign, 1401 BC, during the 18th Dynasty. As was common with other New Kingdom rulers, the epigraph makes claim to a divine legitimisation of ...
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. [1] Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.
Archaeologists discovered a wooden Celtic burial chamber inside a southern Germany burial mound. Dated to between 620 and 450 B.C., these mounds were reserved for high-ranking individuals.
Angrysky 03:36, 8 October 2007 (UTC) I saw a live show on Fox I guess in 1998 or there abouts that showed Dr.Zahi Hawass exploring a large underground multi-storied structure directly under the sphinx with a large sarcophogus in a pool of water surrounded by 4 obelisks displaying a unknown but very advanced form of hiroglyphics- I believe the conjecture was a possible tomb of Osiris.
Hidden beneath a city street was a 1,500-year-old tomb that had remained untouched for centuries, according to an Oct. 31 release from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History ...
These included scenes with seemingly apotropaic functions, such as a scene of the king represented as a sphinx crushing Egypt's enemies under his paw. [44] Other scenes presented include offering bearers, animal slaughter, [89] and the transport of the gilded pyramidion to the construction site.
From north to south: parts of the city of Giza, the Giza Necropolis, and part of the Giza plateau. The Giza Plateau (Arabic: هضبة الجيزة) is a limestone plateau in Giza, Egypt, the site of the Fourth Dynasty Giza pyramid complex, which includes the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex.