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Sphinx

ve the horizon, in perfect alignment with the Sphinx. Egyptologist confronted with these facts brush them off as coincidental and irrelevant, seeing as they believe the Sphinx was constructed in the Fourth dynasty. Pharaohs who build monuments expected and received praise for their creations. To preserve their reign and remind people of the future just how power-full and omnipotent they were they adorned practically every inch of their creations with hieroglyphics. These hieroglyphics are found throughout all of the dynasties and on the hundreds of pyramids and structures found in Egypt, except for one. Throughout the Sphinx and its adjacent temples not a single in inscription, carving, or any other hieroglyphics identified Khafre, our anyone else for that matter as the creator. Egyptologist's, admittedly have no explanation for this phenomena.I feel that the field of Egyptology has a fatal flaw. When confronted with evidence that does not neatly fit into their pre-conceived conceptions or dogmas of history, they attempt to de-bunk it. The alternative to dismissing evidence, is the collapse of a majority of theories that they, and countless others before them, have regarded as sacred truth. I feel that this practice slaughters the virtue of objectivity in the name of heritage and dogma. To accept the evidence above would in fact reposition this major monument away from the Egyptian people and bestow it upon a mysterious and ancient culture. Egyptologist claim there is no evidence of this “ancient culture”; to them I present exhibit 1, the Sphinx. ...

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