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The Great Sphinx of Giza
Rainer Stadelmann, 2000. Hawass, Zahi (ed.), Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000, vol. 1, American University in Cairo Press: 464-469.
A senior Egyptologist's attribution of the Sphinx to Khufu rather than Khafre, from the style of the headdress and beard and the claim that Khafre's causeway was fitted to an existing structure.
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The Khufu attribution, the main rival within Egyptology.
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Stadelmann, R. (2000). The Great Sphinx of Giza. Hawass, Zahi (ed.), Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000, vol. 1, American University in Cairo Press: 464-469. https://giza.fas.harvard.edu/pubdocs/985/full/
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Stadelmann, Rainer. “The Great Sphinx of Giza.” Hawass, Zahi (ed.), Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000, vol. 1, American University in Cairo Press: 464-469 (2000).