Ben van Kerkwyk

They had different interpretations for what that said.

What they believe it said was Khafre was...

trying to do what his ancestors had done before, or that Thutmose was trying to do what his ancestors had done before, and Khafre is mentioned there, in terms of dig it out of the sand and become king.

Like excavate it from the sand.

That's the move that everybody goes through.

Well, I think it could be a great explanation for that dream starter.

It could also just be governmental propaganda, right?

So you could put that in there and say, see, I'm divinely ordained to be king because I dug this out of the sand.

It could be just a story.

Yeah, it's actually good background context because it does apply to not only the Sphinx.

It's the most famous example, I think, and well-known example of, again, an adjacent field of science coming in and challenging some of the doctrine that's been around Egyptology.

But it was actually Schwaller de Lubitz who originally, I think, proposed it.

His work was followed up by John Anthony West, who then brought Dr. Robert Shock, who's a professor of geology at Boston University, to the Sphinx.

This was, I believe, late 80s, early 90s.

And he went and looked at the erosional patch.

So the Sphinx sits inside an enclosure.

It's carved from bedrock.

So it was originally what you'd call a yardang, which is like a limestone outcropping.

And so they cut down in this big enclosure and they cut the floor and then they sort of shaped the Sphinx from this natural outcropping of bedrock.

So you had, and we know this because the structure next to the Sphinx or in front of it called the Sphinx Temple is actually...