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[176] [177] David S. Anderson writes in Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices that Van Sertima's claim that "the sphinx was a portrait statue of the black pharaoh Khafre" is a form of "pseudoarchaeology" not supported by evidence. [178]
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.
The Great Sphinx of Giza's profile in 2010, without its nose. Al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century, attributes the missing nose on the Great Sphinx of Giza to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim in the mid-1300s. He was reportedly outraged by local Muslims making offerings to the Great Sphinx in the hope of controlling the ...
-Regarding the theory of the sphinx being originally anubis headed, and later re-carved into a pharoahs likeness, I remember another psuedoarcheological theory, relying heavily on the 'water-erosion' theories as evidence that posited the original sphinx as much older, and originally carved as a perfectly normal lion, and the head worked down ...
A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century.
The Great Sphinx remains one of the world’s biggest mysteries, but a new study suggests that wind could have had a bigger hand in shaping it than originally thought. Scientists offer evidence to ...
Although Richard Pococke in the same year visited and later published a stylish rendering (in A Description of the East and Some other Countries, 1743), he drew the Sphinx with the nose still on. Pococke's drawing is a faithful adoption of Cornelis de Bruijn 's drawing of 1698 ( Voyage to the Levant , 1702, English trans.), featuring only minor ...
However, from the black perspective, White Europeans have always imposed racism and slavery upon people of African heritage. White Europeans impose slavery on black people because of a supposed "superiority". In other words, White Europeans are snobbish and arrogant and turn up their nose in imposing their slavery on black people.