# Boury 2023: Sculpting the Sphinx

> Samuel Boury, Scott Weady, Leif Ristroph, 2023. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The natural-landform reading's one experimental paper.

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# Sculpting the Sphinx

Samuel Boury, Scott Weady, Leif Ristroph, 2023. _Physical Review Fluids 8, 110503 (Gallery of Fluid Motion)_.

Water-tunnel experiments in which bentonite mounds with a hard inclusion erode into lion-like forms with head, neck, back and paws, offered as a qualitative analogue for a natural yardang origin. The authors state the results do not resolve the Sphinx question.

**Great Sphinx of Giza** Articledoi: **[10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.110503](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.110503)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The natural-landform reading's one experimental paper.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[A wind-eroded yardang with a hard knob at its head end suggested the lion, and the builders finished it by…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/answers/ANS0CTWSK301JCM/a-wind-eroded-yardang-with-a-hard-knob-at-its-head-end)

Answer

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[Clay mounds with a hard inclusion in a water tunnel eroded into forms with head, undercut neck, arched back…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/evidence/EVD0CTWSKAT5EHH/clay-mounds-with-a-hard-inclusion-in-a-water-tunnel-eroded)

Evidence

EVD

[Boury, Weady and Ristroph publish the water-tunnel yardang experiment](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/events/EVT0CTWSBRM58HD/boury-weady-and-ristroph-publish-the-water-tunnel-yardang)

EVT

[Leif Ristroph](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/people/FIG0CTWS6MJ4NQP/leif-ristroph)

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[The Great Sphinx of Giza](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx)

The mystery article

MYS

[Did the builders start from a natural landform?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/questions/QST0CTWSCQW3QY8/did-the-builders-start-from-a-natural-landform)

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## Cite it

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Boury, S., Weady, S., & Ristroph, L. (2023). Sculpting the Sphinx. Physical Review Fluids 8, 110503 (Gallery of Fluid Motion). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.110503
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27 Oct 2026, for editors

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