Why Was The Great Sphinx of Giza Built? | Blowing Up History

Find out what the Great Sphinx would have looked like when it was first built, and why the Pharaoh Khafre had the great monument built with his face on it.

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[angelacase]

I love ancient Egyptian history. I have always found it so fascinating and mysterious.

[muhamadramdani]

Scientist: "why would khafre put his face on a lions body?"

Khafre: "cus it's cool"

(It's just for the memes)

[jakegargiulo]

Seriously? “What looks like hair may be a head dress”

Man who didn’t know that was a head dress! Hahahahaha

[marcellelabuschagne]

My theory: there was a statue of a lion, and then Khafre changed the lion's head to his own face, hence the head being so tiny in proportion.

[chuckhartey]

mankind gets an A+ in only one category. His imagination!

[redneckdiggers.bottlesandr]

If it's only 4000 years old, where did the water erosion come from?
It takes thousands of yrs to erode like that, and there hasn't been rain like that in Egypt for more than 9000 years! Not an "Egyptologist"
but I do love to research a good mystery.

[pencilmen]

There is extensive water erosion around the body of the lion and the excavated enclosure, but not the head. This indicates it dates back to a time when the now arid area had much more rainfall (or possibly major flooding).
I suspect the original monument had a lion’s head to match the lion’s body.
The pharaoh’s image (which lacks the erosion) was a re carving of the heavily eroded lion head, which explains why the head is a now completely out of scale compared to the much larger body.
The damaged nose is simply from a more recent period of state ordered destruction/vandalism when many ancient Egyptian statues and carvings have had their noses hacked off. Possibly an attempt to hide a cultural/ racial attribute that a certain king/caliphate didn’t like.

[Account]

This Egypt stuff is ridiculously interesting

[ThexBorg]

What about the geological age of the Sphinx Enclosure?... much older than 4000... and the repair work done? And that the limestone blocks used in the building in front of the Sphinx were cleanly cut from the Sphinx enclosure...

[jomolololo]

No this is still basically 1970s teaching, many have re dated it as older than pyramids it self

[peachescream]

Whoever was here when the Sphinix still had a nose deserves a veterans discount.

[dannysagar]

4:24, how do you come to that conclusion, just because it died at a young age doesn't mean anything

[dolmio]

As an offering to the cat gods, this feels like a joke

[samarmalik]

Peace.
As per research the lion body statue (currently known as the sphinx) is much older than the Pharaoh dynasty/era. The present head of the pharaoh is carved out of the original lion head. As a result the head is smaller than what it should be proportional to the body.
The pharaoh era, it would seem, is built on older civilisation(s). Cats/lions have always been revered in this part of the world, even before the pharaohs. People arrived here and built their community around an old sacred site on the shores (travel & trade convenience). This is the case with nearly all archeological sites. There is also 'scientific' evidence apart from physical evidence showing multiple layers of history/civilisations on all such sites, be it Incas, Sumerians or Indus Valley, people prefer living & belonging to places with heritage/history for many reasons including superstition and ancestry.
The pharaohs then built the pyramids on marked land aligned to the stars and other earth related magnetic phenomenon ( ; ) though that's.. another story)!
Regards

[rasul]

2:09 it is hilarious how these people act and speak with so much confidence like they lived and hang out with pharaohs 😆 lord help us

[margaretlouise]

Egyptologists are the least credible on Egypt's most ancient monuments, the Sphinx and pyramids. A.) The Sphinx was not an artifact of Khufu. (The Great Pyramid wasn't either and was never a tomb.) Khufu may have carved his head into an eroded stump of the head that was put there when the Sphinx was actually built, at the latest nine thousand years ago, according to famous geologist Robert Schoch who analyzed the WATER EROSION on the Sphinx. (Keep in mind that Egypt hasn't had enough rainfall to erode anything in 10, 000 years. At the time the Sphinx was built, 5 thousand years before the pharaohs, the head may have been of a lion or an Anubis type dog. B.) There is a persistent effort of Egyptologists to cover up evidence of our very ancient history, shown by the truly megalithic structures of a much farther back antiquity and they erroneously fold it into far later times. Anomalous evidence has to be crammed into their paradigm that there was no advanced civilization before a few thousand years ago. Purveying this bunk has earned Egyptologists the title of "quackademics." It has taken engineers, geologists, and others from the "hard sciences" to expose either the intentional obfuscation or ineptitude of Egyptologists about what are obviously extremely ancient structures of a lost civilization many, many thousands of years ago. C) This video is a splendid example of disinformation by quackademics. If you want more accurate information, investigate the works of Robert Schoch, John Anthony West, Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock. These authors have been called the 4 Horsemen, so much have they destroyed the quackademic paradigm.

[rickricksimpson.]

I think they used those animal to be more like power to represent their culture

[colinhurst-ashbaugh]

The Sphinx is the KINGS son it was built to honor him and his loyalty 7000 years before he was even born.

[dunningkruger]

Gobekli Tepe tells us that men were carving beautiful pillars with animals and astronomy thousands of years before the "alleged" date of the construction of the Sphinx. The Sphinx was likely (based on erosion) created sometime around the Gobekli period or earlier.

[kevjef]

I like how they (and most Egyptologists) completely ignore the fact that the Sphinx face is not weathered and worn at all in comparison to its body and the walls of the cavity in the ground. These extreme worn out areas are a sign that the Sphinx (at least body) is very much older than 4-5 thousand years like the claim. Many geologists have claimed the the water erosion on the side walls show tens of thousands of years of erosion. Also note that it had not rained in that desert for at least 7000 years. The best theory that I have heard is that the Sphinx was a lion carved tens of thousands of years ago before the Egyptians and at a later date the Pharaoh Khafre had his face carved on the lions head. That explains why the face shows almost no signs of the erosion that the body does. But no modern Egyotologists want to state anything that goes against what they are taught in school. There is also a VERY strong belief that the Pyramaids are also much older than the we are taught. Most likely built at the same time as the Sphinx. The Egyptians have NO recorded history of if or how they built the Pyramids, because most likely they didn't. They just settled in the area. I, and many others do believe that there was very advanced civilization prior to the global cataclysm that happened 12, 600 years ago that whipped them out and they were responsible for many of the monolithic stone structures that we find throughout the world.