Ben van Kerkwyk

I mean, here's the big one.

The face is in eroded.

Exactly.

It's been one of my major points for a long time.

To be fair, it is the yarding, the sedimentary layers of limestone, it is a slightly harder form of limestone, but still, you're talking thousands and thousands of years where the only thing above...

the sand level was basically the face and it's then and they explain all of this deep erosion on the body of the sphinx and the sphinx enclosure to wind and sand i know obviously robert shock is a different interpretation but yes you would see erosion on that but you just don't i think that the most plausible explanation for that sphinx is that yes the face was re-carved in the dynastic period probably but it could have been by kufra actually

may well have been before that as well because there's other evidence that suggests that the Sphinx was already buried in sand at his time.

Wow.

The attribution to Khafre comes from two main sources.

One is its position.

So where the Sphinx is, you have the middle pyramid, you have the causeway that runs down, and you have the middle pyramid, you have the pyramid temple, the complex where we were seeing that erosion.

You have this massive causeway that runs down to then the valley temple, which is this...

You know, very famous, massive megalithic structure.

And right next to the Valley Temple is the Sphinx.

And in front of that is the Sphinx Temple.

So they sort of attribute it and make it, well, it's part of the middle pyramid complex.

The other attribution comes from what's been written on that dream stelae between the legs of the Sphinx at its chest.

It does say Kaffir on there, but there's a lot of...

It's a controversial statement to say that that means Khafre built it.

There were several Egyptologists who had different... And this is back in the early 1900s.