An investigation into the origins of the Sphinx and its first excavation in modern times! 

Do you think there may have been a 2nd sphinx, either one long eroded away on site or maybe located elsewhere, perhaps still buried today? Just something I've always wondered since I saw once saw a relief presenting two in a book when I was younger. Then there are the two presented in the book you read from.

Geezer? 1:40. Love it. Lombardo double bass roll for you. Had to razz.

How can I find and borrow that book De L Egypte ?

@UnchartedX , at 15.46 there is a picture of an old chamber, and on the floor of that picture is what I think is the sphinx in its original form with a lions head. I'm not sure if you noticed this or not as you didn't mention in the video but I just thought I would point it out incase you didn't realise it was there. Many thanks for your amazing work over the years, always great reasoning and logic behind what you do 👍

nice job Ben.

Same.. except I do pay RU-vid for premium every month. Other then that I give approx half a dozen content creators $.

I give precisely fuck all to RU-vid creators and I still feel that's too much.

He can kick Chum Lee's ass any day.

What's "cable" grandpa?

Never had it got shot of the TV licence though. Its depressing all the time. I honestly rarely look at the news. Follow some independent people.

Same

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same same

Me too

Same! :)

Im young, in my early 30s, but work with Antiques, so I've somewhat seen some of the changes. Ive had the notion of wanting to start collecting antique history books and comparing today's narritive to yester-years. Even reading historic newspapers sheds lots of light on the new narratives they push 🙄

@@SarV1 Interesting. Please do it. You'd be doing humanity a great service👍

Exactly right. The part that blows me away is that the most likely reason why we don’t know who, when, and how it was built is because a global cataclysm wiped that civilization from the Earth. Yet, despite a complete and utter devastation sufficient to wipe everyone from the Earth, these structures somehow survived that cataclysm. How many of our modern “advanced” structures would survive an event(s) like that? Zero. I find that absolutely astonishing.

That's what's gonna happen to the stone barbecue I built... yup "sips beer" 🍺

Oh they know who built it they just don't want mankind to know but it's slowly revealing itself

Imagine building something that incredible and slapping a Beetlejuice size head on it. It's sickening that anyone believes that's the original head

Bravo. Absolutely correct.

very correct my sir! i have no hopes in finding out more info on this great topic as long we have those stupid retarded iditos that stop investingations. just mind boggeling how disrespectful and dumb they(we) have gotten. A disgrace!

He got fired in 2011.. he's a private investigator/consultant now.

@@Starfishtroopers i didnt know that. good. tho. thx!

I'm curious as to what he investigates, and to whom he consults.

It’s so nice to hear you give each other mentions and to see you commenting on each other’s posts on RU-vid! :)

Is it weird that I read your comment and could hear it in your voice? Lmao love your channel as well Ancient Architects!

Thanks Matt - it was your recommendation that led me to getting a copy of this publication in the first place! I am thinking about doing a brief follow up video going through that early Arab exploration, as well as Cavigula's work in the great pyramid, it's quite the dramatic tale. Thanks also for the kind words, means a lot coming from a pro channel like yours!

@@UnchartedX please do! :)

Im surprise you actually like this video since you have gone mainstream in you videos as of late,always putting out the mainstream timeline to when things happend in the past

What's up Antonio! Looking forward to your next hip-hop video. Saber toothed tigers in the house. 😉

The best thing to do might be to stop caring. Who cares about some old Egyptian rocks and artifacts? Asian people don't care, Indian people don't care, Latin Americans don't care, African blacks like to think they built it but don't care enough to study it, so when Europe and the US stop caring, it's over for Zahi Hawass.

@@stiffrichard2816 because it’s interesting af ancient history is class

Hawas: The foremost authority of Egyptology; known liar and theif.

@@stevenhunt3113 I doubt we will learn much of what he has concealed until he dies but don't solely blame him, remember all the western Egyptologist who have gone along with him over the years....

Hawass is a great example for any scientist, an example of what not to do 😂

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@naruto tricked me sry some folk need to upon up the mind and stop being sheep 🐑 it’s plain to see we being lied to and our history is not what it seems, go listen to some folk music it might open ya mind up some what.

Absolutely

@naruto tricked me sry is your name KAREN 😂 so please indulge your evidence of why is this nonsense then 🙄

@@sheepinwolfclothing4334 well said.

I'd say it's more of a desert than a field, but I agree nonetheless

Thank you!!

A crude, yet effective first thrust. I fully agree with your basic assessment

Robert Shock says it is water erosion which indicates a time when water was prevalent in the desert 10,000 plus. Buaval dates it 10,500 based on astrology.

now do the math for the water erosion, which would require the entire Sphinx enclosure to be exposed for 1000s of years *prior* to being buried, and would have continually required human occupation to keep the sand from piling up during that time UNLESS it was made during a time before the Sahara desert formed, which would be even more incredible.

Agree

The Roman dug it out around 50bc as did ptolemy 350 years beforehand. The sands of Egypt cover things far faster than you might think.

Thanks so much!

It would also stand that the water erosion evident in the compound walls would also translate to the sphinx. But it appears it has been above the sand just long enough to lose the water erosion features, while the wall was protected. It really makes a fella think that it is older than really old. Im going to venture a guess and say it was multi-thousands of years old before egypt became dry. Has anyone taken a guess at how long the wall would have to be exposed to rain to create the features? And how long would it take for wind erosion to wipe that away from the sphinx? Also, even as a child, i always knew the sphinx originally was a lion. Its so obvious, i personally would be embarrassed to attempt to sell any other story........zahi...........

I too was pleasantly surprised to see this video

want this is patricia

The algorithm doesn't promote him

@@curiodyssey3867 the algorithm supports him, but the people that it is shown to are alreay subscribed to real historians and archeologists

@Sean he is right about more than he is wrong about. As evidenced by the structured light scan of the early kingdom jar. He does a podcast with the guys that actually did the math, and it is far beyond the capabilities of anyone to replicate by hand or with crude machines. That's the great thing about hard science. It just takes one thing to topple soft sciences. Like a DNA test that completely rewrote the taxonomic structure of birds. Or a structured light scan that proves that something was made with machinery comparable to what we have today, and, by extension, that the kemet people inherited much of what was attributed to them. They themselves say this. That they are a legacy from earlier times.

@@wpriddy what math accounts for the capabilities of a machine no one can show existed? If you claim that it was advanced technology of some kind the burden of proof for the existence of that technology lies with the one making the claim. As of now there's nothing in the known historical or archiological record to suggest this is the case, but if you've heard of a recent discovery I'd love to look in to it!

Bros never lived in a town of a few thousand ppl if he thinks hundreds of thousands is nothing

Sad, it was once barren land

Under water?

The 40 thousand year old virgin.

I couldn't read your comment without picturing Rodney Dangerfield straightening his tie. That's pretty funny.

Given the age of our current genetic line and what we've done technologically already, I wouldn't be surprised if a prior human civ made it to orbit. Would be interesting to find some well preserved artifacts in solar system left by our forefathers

Completely agree with your sentiment that group think is a plague of the mind that prevents us from being able to consider possible explanations to the wonders of the world around us... However, I think that this is not solely a characteristic of our current times, although we do seem to be living through a particularly insidious episode.. I would argue that this sad situation (group think) is very much the default position for most of the human race and as a result it has affected great swathes of time throughout history.. Copernicus, Galileo, da Vinci, Columbus and many others over the ages have all proposed ideas and theories that we consider nowadays as obvious as the nose upon one's face but at the time that they were put forward the reigning consensus considered their ideas as preposterous.. How things change with time and open minds. That's why it takes a unique mix of intellect, confidence and bravery to speak up and propose something new in the face of a prevalent and unwavering dogma.. This combination is not common but it is readily identifiable in people such as Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, Robert Bauval and the purveyor of this magnificent channel, our man Ben, as they question the status quo and challenge the current ruling dogma that human civilisation only started 5 or 6 thousand years ago and that we know all that is worth knowing about the history of our planet. That is why unchartedx is one of my favourite channels on YT.. Thoughtful, insightful and interesting ideas all presented in a disarmingly effective manner.. I never miss an episode. Happy travels to all and keep up the great work Ben, you're a treasure!

A plague from all eras

as is the actual plague..

I agree but only to a certain degree. Expand the scope and then you see it isn’t a fixed consensus. I think this is just a result of how we process what we see to believe as the truth for the time being. Us humans are curious species and always seeking answers. Don’t think of it as a static truth (I.e the group think) but instead an ever-changing viewpoint where the masses slowly and surely re-examine and lay forth new ideas, debate, examine evidence, just as this RU-vid video does - presenting alternate ideas and concepts as our sciences and knowledge of things progress. Think Galileo and the previous notion that Earth was flat. I’m so excited to live in today’s world because technology is excelling at an accelerating rate. But not everyone thinks like this, and it is sad. Many find comfort in a single truth and blindly accept it as the one and only truth. But it is not their fault, we have to help each other. Think of Platos allegory of the cave.

Whom is?

@@josephpennington2795 - I genuinely don’t know how to answer this.

Demonrats

close, but not quite. train is back on the tracks, I do say something about this at the end... but i have more coming soon, had a few 'life' distractions recently.

@@UnchartedX great to hear from you brother. Thanks for your effort in keeping knowledge from going the way of Alexandria 😉

No train between there beginning and end other than worldly ones.

I live in the US - and I have a ton of footage from Angkor Wat. Would like to do that video some day, as well as to visit the site myself sometime in the next year or so. Assuming the world doesn't end and all that :)

@@UnchartedX In Cambodia, Angkor Wat is just the start. It was a religious centre, but adjacent to it are vast ruins of a subsidiary centre called "The bayon" and clear evidence of a sizeable urban metropolis with numerous navigable waterways. Interestingly, the masonry techniques are a mixed bag, including, in many ruined structures, clear evidence that metallic (bronze??) "tie-bars were in wide use, just as they were in at least one other site, far, far away.I only got there once, in April 1990, when the Siem Reap airport terminal was a corrugated iron shed, sans air-con bur avec cold beer. On the eastern side of Cambodia is what is locally called "Mini-Angkor"; a bit shabby, but, there it is. "Wat" is the generic term for "temple" The appalling Khmer rouge did a LOT of damage to the many structures and relics, for example, defacing the bas relief-carved "apsara" (temple) dancers covering vast surfaces of many buildings. Traditionally, the REAL dancers were chosen for their beauty and grace, and danced "topless" ; hence the KR vandalism. The Maoism-inspired Khmer Rouge were VERY "sick puppies". Whist I was there, the "fixers" arranged for a visit to a revived school for traditional music and dance. The KR missed a few holders of the knowledge. South East Asia has a LOT of "interesting" pre-1800 stuff, if you go looking for it.

I wonder about all the granite sphinx statues with human faces, and the fact that all the Anubis statues have very long necks unlike the Sphinx at Giza. Maybe it was a larger head of someone else, and was recut in a different likeness thus making the head smaller. I cannot see how you get to the current Sphinx shape from a sleek and pointy Anubis unless you add material and then recut.

I’ve watched a lot of your videos on the sphinx. I’m still not sure what the original head was. I’m not even sure if it was an animal it might’ve just been a decorated mound that’s been built over. My intuition says this was originally an open air area that led underground then monuments were built on them

@@hyperluminalreality1 I just listen to the Egyptians. They are clear. They name the temple. They didn't lie in their most sacred text. Anubis is the only God allowed at the entrance to a tomb or necropolis. If you think it was something other than Anubis that is fine. Believe in something that never was.

I agree. And the theory that it was a lion because it was facing the Leo constellation at a certain period makes no sense to me. Who's to say the ancient Egyptians interpreted that constellation as a lion like we did? To them it might just as well have been a dog.

It would make sense that it was originally Anubis, and slowly weathered to the point where the front of the head broke off. Then the later Egyptians found it very similarly shaped to how it is today, and carved it into the human face. I'd like to think - that for at least a time - the people there mocked up the Anubis head with reeds and such to try and keep the balance of things.

Yes you are completely dead correct . There just isn’t any other explanation that is as logical as this. I would add the Paleolithic climate in the region being moist and fertile would have aided in the enclosure and base under the Sphinx remaining unburied until after the younger dryas epoch when the region turned to sand.

After several more rotations of the cultural appropriations, it will resemble it's last possible form, not unlike an obelisk, The Great Pinhead...

The dynastic Egyptians had their cancel culture too 😬 Goes to show how damaging it is.

As a sculptor of monumental statues I always thought the front legs are too long for lion and the pose is more doglike like Anubis.

It seems as if every "Official Narrative" today is a lie.

I have 3 eyes !

@@delboytrotter8806 Brown eye of Osiris doesn't count

People lie in order to maintain what they believe is an intellectual advantage. Also to maintain the ability to deceive the masses. Simply put

Science has very high momentum, once it gets going in a direction, its really hard to turn. I am friends with two very very smart high school buddies. One is at Las Alamos doing classified work, and another one who invented small nerve gas detectors for the army many yrs ago. Neither wants to seriously consider an ancient society with more knowledge than they have...or UFOs and extraterrestrials. Its just out of the question, unless a scientist proves it and publishes it. Hence the problem.

This is a very valid question! I’ve thought the same, Does it slope or is it all built on an incline above something different? Also consider the holes in the path leading to the pyramid that can take in infinite amounts of sand. Yousef showed this Ben and I was stunned! Knowing they built the platform specifically for the pyramids as well; if all the sand was excavated off the plateau what would it look like?

The sphinx was dug out as it was carved, from limestone that was already there. This includes the head, which was carved out of a naturally pertruding rock formation. VS the pyramids that were quarried elsewhere

It’s Zahi Hawass’ side account.

Really disappointing to see that the channel World of Antiquities has dedicated videos to just, showing others content, mixing their words around and slating them. That channel will more than likely be greatly promoted by RU-vid unfortunately.

I had posted a few not so dear comments pointing out his ignorance hoping that he would respond, he did. In hindsight I shouldn’t have been so irrational and direct, but my emotions got the better of me... The man is unaware of his illogal way of thinking and hides behind a curtain of deflection. Also, he fails to understand that he’s debunking content that he misrepresents in a stupendous way, claiming that Ben somehow suggests something “absurd without showing enough efficient evidence” which is foolishly hypocritical to say the least. I could’ve debated him on most of his points to defend the path Ben is daring to take, but considering the fact that WoA already watched all of Ben’s video’s in high detail; I doubt he would ever change his mind in this lifespan. He is a smart guy distracted by his own ignorance. Ben, focus on collecting the data everybody needs, make the case bigger and don’t waste your time on a couple of “nee-zeggers”. If you’re reading this Ben, love you bud, you changed my life. Groetjes uit Nederland.

That channel just goes to show you, just because you're educated doesn't mean you're smart.

Hawass, Lerner .. and that other old boy with the white hair..

It's 31 now. "Shame on you!" they are saying.

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@Jeremy Chandler but then why would the Egyptians hide the secret?