Ben van Kerkwyk

you can line up the sedimentary layers of the blocks that are in there from the Sphinx enclosure.

So we know that there were blocks taken from here.

So this is all predictably sort of cut walls and the Sphinx would have been nicely finished when it was.

And he looked at these patterns.

If you go there today, I think I have pictures of the walls of the Sphinx enclosure in there.

And it's just these deeply eroded vertical channels.

And the Sphinx body is harder to tell because it's been restored so many times.

The ancient Egyptians restored it.

The Romans restored it.

We restored it a couple of different times.

Assholes.

Yeah, yeah.

It's funny.

But the nice thing is the walls of the enclosure really haven't been touched.

So you can see the natural erosive patterns.

And he looked at that and went, that's rainfall erosion.

But not just...

some rainfall erosion, literally the result of thousands of years.

The only way you would get these patterns in the stone is thousands of years of rainfall erosion.

Obviously, Giza's a really, really dry, I mean, Egypt's a really dry place these days.