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Rewriting the History of the Great Sphinx
Colin D. Reader, 2026. Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford (332 pp., ISBN 9781805832096).
Argues from geology and the archaeology of early Giza that the Sphinx was carved in the Second Dynasty before the pyramids, that Khufu's quarrying changed the flooding that eroded the enclosure, that the Sphinx Temple predates Khafre's Valley Temple, and that a body carved for the lion goddess Mafdet had its head recut by Khufu.
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The current statement of the early-dynastic reading and of a head-recutting claim.
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Reader, C. D. (2026). Rewriting the History of the Great Sphinx. Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford (332 pp., ISBN 9781805832096). https://doi.org/10.32028/9781805832096
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Reader, Colin D.. “Rewriting the History of the Great Sphinx.” Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford (332 pp., ISBN 9781805832096) (2026). https://doi.org/10.32028/9781805832096.