# Stadelmann 2000: The Great Sphinx of Giza

> Rainer Stadelmann, 2000. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The Khufu attribution, the main rival within Egyptology.

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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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[The Sphinx was carved under Khufu, Khafre's predecessor, and Khafre's causeway was laid out around it.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/answers/ANS0CTWSFNM2P13/the-sphinx-was-carved-under-khufu-khafres-predecessor-and)

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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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[Read it free at giza.fas.harvard.edu](https://giza.fas.harvard.edu/pubdocs/985/full/)

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