12 Strangest Mysteries Of The Ancient Egyptian Sphinx

The Sphinx of Egypt is one of the most famous ancient sculptures in the world, but how much do you really know about it? In fact, how much does anybody really know about it? There’s far more to the Sphinx than most people imagine, and you probably won’t even realise how much about it you don’t know until you’ve finished watching this video!

[vanhattfield]

Maybe the head was modified by different pharohs over time to match their own appearance instead of attempting to build a new one, and that is why it is much smaller than the body. They would be erasing the relevency of their predessesor and establishing their own, and the process reapeated multiple times which would throw off the scale of the head in comarrison to the body.

[Jason-izob]

So you’re telling me the sphinx was intentionally buried and might be 12, 000 years old, just like Gobekli tepe which was intentionally buried and 12, 000 years old…..

[iansmolinski]

A small correction: the goddess Sekhmet often took the form of a lioness. Therefore lions aren't entirely foreign to ancient Egyptian culture.
I still think it was recarved from an image of Anubis.

[markmcbride]

If we’re being brutally honest, if those artifacts weren’t in the British museum, they probably would have been lost to time like everything else in Egypt.

[Jtyrone]

I think it's possible that the pyramids and the sphinx predate the Egyptian dynasties. It would make more sense that Khufu spent 20 years renovating the great pyramid instead of building it. The monuments would have been inspirational and act as a guide for future development. The Egyptians kept meticulous records of their achievements. There are none of the sphinx and pyramids of the Giza Plateau possibly because they didn't build them.

[chesterricherson]

The pyramids were already there before this civilization arose, the Egyptian people took undeserving credit for having built them, I believe that civilizations have risen and fallen on this planet many times, but "staying alive " became the top priority, and remembrance of the past was forgotten...

[rockel]

6:30 There're alo whale skeletons found in the "Wadi Al-Hitan" part, which is pretty close to the Sphinx. So it actually could mean this area was part of an ocean before. But this should mean that the sphinx was even build before it actually was an ocean. There're even pyramid looking objects found on ocean floors thesedays. Maybe there were just some advanced cultures before the ice age. And that survivors of this cataclysm formed later civilizations like sites as Caral and Göbekli Tepe, whichdate back pretty close to the last ice age.

It could also explain the damage to the pyramids themselves.

At least there's a lot of history we still don't know. And maybe we could be verry surprised when we're able to reveal more of it. But probably we will never will and things will stay a big guess...

BTW, the face of the sphinx looks actually verry smooth compared to the rest of the body. This could strenghten the idea that the body is actually way older, had to endure more tear because of that, making it pretty possible the face is indeed remodelled.

[MrMome]

What blows my mind is that none of the classic Egyptologists wonder why there clearly is water erosion on the sphinx. They must find so much comfort in the idea that they have figured the exact timeline of the ancient Egyptians out!

[Quisl]

Everyone knows the nose dropped because Obelix climbed on it.

[phoneguy]

excuse me, but I have to correct several statements:
1. lions were VERY important to the egyptians, especially during the predynastic dynasties and during the first four dynasties. it was after king shepseskaf, that lions disappeared from the royal court.
2. there are three candidates for being the builder of the sphinx: king khufu, king radjedef and king khafra.
3. some egyptologists believe that the original head of the sphinx was that of a lion: during the predynastic era and the first two dynasties, a lion god named aker was worshipped at giza. aker was the god of death and later replaced by anubis and khontamenti (both jackal-headed).

[danyst-gelais]

This is such a cool mystery. I love this !

[itsoktoberight]

There's ancient primitive petroglyphs on the walls of the Aswan quarry where they cut all the stones for the pyramids, these petroglyphs are around 11, 000 years old

[LegendaryFenrir]

Maybe the reason there are no records from the Egyptians on the building of the Sphinx is due to it predating them, and they just altered it and adopted it into their culture.

[dodirae]

Also 13, 500 years ago, when it is believed when it was built, it was a lion head and it faced the constellation of Leo.

[jak]

There is an attitude among ‘experts’ that we have found everything we need to to understand pre history. When something comes to light that does not fit in that model it is ridiculed or ignored.

[wweyyuu]

My Dogs all told me it was their great really great Grandpaw

[Macovic]

Easily 12 000 BP. Imagine how much undiscovered stuff burried.

[soundemics]

Fragments of the Sphinx's nose is currently in a museum in London.

[gyorgischwartz]

The water erosion around it is the most telling evidence

[FROGG-COEmiamp.]

Definitely designed by Thoth of the Anunnaki/Atlantean race Enki's son all explained in Thoth's Emerald Tablets the great sphinx and the great pyramids of giza are what left of atlantean technology.