Answer · Great Sphinx of Giza
The core body was carved in the early Holocene or before, between about 10,000 and 5000 BC, and later…
The core body was carved in the early Holocene or before, between about 10,000 and 5000 BC, and later reworked.
Where it stands
DisputedOne piece of evidence for, three against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
What it predicts
- The ditch walls carry precipitation-erosion features that no Old Kingdom or later process can produce.
- Weathering depth below the ditch floor is consistent with thousands of years of extra exposure.
- Pre-dynastic human activity, tools or structures are found in the enclosure or under the temples.
What would rule it out
- Datable Fourth Dynasty or later material sealed beneath the earliest weathering features, or a repeat seismic survey showing the weathered layer is a depositional facies of uniform thickness.
Evidence 1 for · 3 against
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The questions it answers
Most likelyThe Sphinx was carved under Khafre, about 2550 to 2520 BC, in the same quarrying operation that supplied the…
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). The core body was carved in the early Holocene or before, between about 10,000 and 5000 BC, and later… [Answer ANS0CTWSHM40AJC]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CTWSHM40AJC
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