Classical Egyptology claims that the sphinx was built in the time of Pharaoh Cheops or his son, about 2,500 years B.C.
A century and a half ago, a so-called "Inventory Stella" was found at Giza, which indicated that Cheops had only commanded that the damaged statue be repaired. Repair it, not erect it!
And in the early 1990s, American geologist Robert Schoch proved that the furrows on the body of the sphinx and on the trench wall around it are traces of erosion not by wind but by rain: vertical bands instead of horizontal ones. But there had been no serious rainfall in Egypt for at least 8,000 years. Immediately after the publication of Schoch, the Egyptian authorities began the restoration of the sphinx.
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