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Giza's Sphinx Would Not Have Been Sculpted From Scratch: What if Nature Had Done the Bulk of the Work?

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A study raises the intriguing possibility that the Sphinx, a famous 4,500-year-old monument located in Giza in front of the Khéphren pyramid, was not built entirely from scratch. It is indeed possible that the erosion of the wind made the starting rocky element look like a sphinx. The ancient Egyptians [...]
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A study raises the intriguing possibility that the Sphinx, a famous 4,500-year-old monument located in Giza in front of the Khéphren pyramid, was not built entirely from scratch. It is indeed possible that the erosion of the wind made the starting rocky element look like a sphinx. The ancient Egyptians [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Saturday, May 30, 2026.
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