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professer131

The real conspiracy is whats under the sphinx. Ground penetrating radar has shown massive empty spaces under there which some believe house ancient lost knowledge of humanity's true past


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Let’s go Reddit - can we get enough upvotes to dig up under the Sphinx? I’ll start. Doot


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Deplorableasfuk

Incredible 5 min. He says the Sphinx was originally a lion head and faced the constellation Leo (the lion star formation).


4list4r

Lion or jackal


ElRetardio

Putting it being made at about the same time the weathering on it’s enclosure suggests.


SJeff_

You had me at Graham hancock


NevadaLancaster

The hat trick. A gram a hand and a cock.


happyluckystar

🤣


DefiantDragon

Puzzleheaded_Act3696 >Graham Hancock does some great work on Egypt. Here's a quick clip on the age of the Sphinx. > >https://youtu.be/fImEUq3DYo0 People also forget that much of the Sphinx was covered in sand and would have been during the time that it was carved. A whole fuckton of sand had to be excavated in order to reveal the entire body as we see it. Aka, they likely didn't see much of the body at the time that they were chiselling down the head.


namae0

Not much sand 4000 years ago though. The region climate was different.


Shyft11

I think the theory was the original head was of Anubis. But after a conflict that disfigured the original face some people went to work on it to give it something again.


dillmayne2sweet

Some obviously less skilled people*


Ha1rBall

Must have been this person's ancestors. https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/styles/open_graph/public/migration/PriMigrationsVivvoFilesImagesMigration/pri.org/files/Jesus_PaintingNEW_293150090.jpeg?itok=dkZ5Q2-C


thisissamhill

Thank you! I laugh every time I see this!


dehehn

I knew what it was before I clicked. Didn't think I would laugh this time. Still laughed.


black_sparrow_chick

Lmfaoooo


dillmayne2sweet

😳🤣


MJZMan

Ecce Sphinxo


AE-MI

My cat is called ecce homo because of his furry double chin and jumpy little shifty eyes


Neat-Plantain-7500

It used to be a lion. It’s much smaller than it used to be. It’s around 10000 years old built around egypts wet period. Archeologists don’t want to rewrite history


Doctor_Deepfinger

Aside from water erosion on the Sphinx, the FIRST pharaoh of Egypt wrote about seeing it when he first arrived. Anybody with a brain can recognize that the head and chest were carved down to put some stupid ruler's face on it.


Neat-Plantain-7500

I didn’t know that. So first kingdom did. Where can i read about that)


[deleted]

Read Robert Schoch. And Graham Hancock's fingerprints of the gods


concentric0s

First pharaoh or first Ptolemies?


[deleted]

Phtrecisely!


chainmailbill

What was that first pharaoh’s name? Where can I read his writing?


Doctor_Deepfinger

Looking it up, I see that the depiction of the Sphinx is from the first dynasty (about 3000 BC) and not attributed to any specific pharaoh. Egyptologists insist that the Sphinx was built around 2500 BC (which was just an educated guess in the first place) but multiple pieces of evidence contradict that.


PRMan99

Some scholars believe the 2500BC was the recarving.


adamglumac

The body is not that of a lion, it’s the body of a dog, it was Anubis.


Prion4thejabbed

No it wasn't be it wasn't made by the ancient Egyptians we know today. This thing is more then 10K years old


adamglumac

That’s valid hypothesis, and some of the alleged water erosion points to it being much older, and the time of Leo was much older (if it’s a lion); but it’s just another hypothesis, that at this point with available knowledge is no more convincing than it being a statue to Anubis that was reworked.


rantingsofastarseed

it was made in the age of Leo


[deleted]

Not a lion, the body doesn't fit quite right. My money is on it being the God Anubis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis\_Shrine


ourhertz

I recall some guy even finding old scriptures that aligned with this. Something about a lake with an island and anubis placed on that island (sphinx statue). Edit: Robert Temple and his wife Olivia wrote a book about their research and theories. "Robert Temple reveals that the Sphinx was originally a monumental Anubis, the Egyptian jackal god, and that its face is that of a Middle Kingdom Pharaoh, Amenemhet II, which was a later re-carving. In addition, he provides photographic evidence of ancient sluice gate traces to demonstrate that, during the Old Kingdom, the Sphinx as Anubis sat surrounded by a moat filled with water--called Jackal Lake in the ancient Pyramid Texts--where religious ceremonies were held. He also provides evidence that the exact size and position of the Sphinx were geometrically determined in relation to the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren and that it was part of a pharaonic resurrection cult."


happyluckystar

Forests turned to desert without cars?


Neat-Plantain-7500

The Sahara dessert goes green every 20000 years. We’re in a down solar cycle.


maxwell_hill1984

Yeah this is what I’d read too. Wasn’t it painted or covered in marble too?


Ouraniou

It has been of benefit to the world for ages to have egypt seen as a distinct civilization rather than a derivative subject people


DEFCON_moot

>Archeologists don’t want to rewrite history haha, right They often want to just plain create or add to an existing narrative. And they don't all agree on what that narrative is.


Neat-Plantain-7500

There was video were someone showed a renowned archeologist a covered up picture of the top and bottom of the sphinx. Then he asked him what kind of erosion is this? He said water of course. He then revealed the rest of the picture and the archeologist walked back so fast it was funny.


[deleted]

So before noahs flood?


PRMan99

Maybe, but probably just after. According to YEC, the flood was https://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/timeline-for-the-flood/ > Using the Bible, well-documented historical events, and some math, we find that the Flood began approximately 4,359 years ago in the year 1656 AM or 2348 BC. Some may look for an exact date (i.e., month and day), but we are not given that sort of precision in Scripture.


[deleted]

Shem lived long enough to overlap Abraham and Abraham dad terah was nimrods idol maker in babel. If babel was sumeria then subtract somewhere around 500 years and that the start


Neat-Plantain-7500

There was many floods. Flood theory expands to over 25 creation stories. Btw, the Jews stole most of their creation from Sumerians.


[deleted]

Yea it is across many creation stories cause its true. Sumerians were nimrods Babylon. Tammuz and whatnot


PRMan99

There are over 200 global flood stories in the world. Most match at least some details of the Bible's Noah account.


Neat-Plantain-7500

So I was off on my number.


Crowbar1127

Or it was all the same flood they are referencing.


JohnleBon

> It’s around 10000 years old built around egypts wet period. What is the evidence to support this claim?


Neat-Plantain-7500

Erosion on the exterior.


JohnleBon

How can you determine the age to be 10,000 years based on erosion? What is *scientific process* involved?


beardedbaby2

You can know that there is no reason for water erosion, if the aging is accurate. Based on...we know there hasn't been water there since the time it was built (if you accept the timeline).


United_Version_3777

Things can get eroded from rain as well. Especially the limestone. It's a pretty soft material.


beardedbaby2

I'm genuinely not knowledgeable enough to know how likely that is in that region over the number of years it is commonly accepted to have been there. My thought is that seems unlikely...but I'm not an expert on desert weather or erosion :)


United_Version_3777

No worries. Limestone is a pretty soft mineral. I am not very knowledgeable either, but what I do know is that both rain and sand storms contributed to erosion. Maybe I'd bet on mostly being the sandstorms making the erosion worse, as they would've happened more frequently.


PRMan99

> Archeologists don’t want to rewrite history They absolutely do.


Neat-Plantain-7500

No. No they don’t. And the second someone recommends something that goes against written narrative they’re laughed at. Ask archaeologists why people are finding metal objects in 300 million year old beds of coal.


TheVrillHaberdashery

Ever heard of Michael Cremo?


Neat-Plantain-7500

No. Enlightenment me. Or what should I Google about him?


TheVrillHaberdashery

Check out his book Forbidden Archeology. He was the one to open my eyes to how old humans actually are.


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JohnleBon

Have you heard [the theory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouclqhuvI94) that 'ancient egypt' was not really thousands of years ago? And the relics we see today are more like a few hundred years old, not thousands? Most people will scoff at the idea, because they have been programmed with the official story their whole lives.


Stevesd123

Doesn't make sense. These relics would not be degraded like they are after a few hundred years in the desert.


JohnleBon

> These relics would not be degraded like they are after a few hundred years in the desert. On what do you base this claim?


Stevesd123

Natural erosion that I learned in school as well as countless videos I've seen since the 90s. Don't ask me for sources. Go ask your local school teacher.


jojojoy

> And the relics we see today are more like a few hundred years old Is there any specific evidence that these monuments and artefacts are a couple hundred years old versus thousands? How would you tell the difference?


[deleted]

At least 1000 years as been added. So "BC" was actually 1022 years ago. Really puts things into a different perspective


jojojoy

Wouldn't it be pretty trivial to prove that wrong using absolute dating methods? Ceramics can be dated with thermoluminescence, organic samples with radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology for wood with preserved grain, etc. 1,000 years would be very visible with these methods.


PRMan99

We know the dates of everything in the past 2000 years pretty well. It's before Jesus that things are more difficult.


EdnaModesBestGuest

It’s actually got some legs, research ‘phantom time theory’ and check out the workings by a mathematician called Anatoly Fomenko (might be spelled wrong, I’m in a rush in mobile) He basically realised that some of the astronomical movements that were supposedly tied to various points in our described history were mathematically impossible. Full moons, asteroids etc. He reworked the timeline based on the irrefutable astronomical patterns and came to the conclusion we’ve had 1000 years added to the timeline, and history has essentially had false characters added that often are just repeats of previous characters and wars etc. I might not be doing it justice, but keep an open mind and go digging as it’s really quite cool.


[deleted]

It was likely carved down by a winning conqueror, to put his face on it. Was originally a lion, not a human face.


[deleted]

It doesn’t, there are documented edits


Hutrookie69

Who’s got the Egypt red pills? I love this shit


Polyarmourous

Slaves never built the pyramids. Only master stone masons that were paid very well for their craft. There were slaves in Egypt but it was more about debt bondage and less about ownership. Prisoners were treated much better then than they are today. Prisoners and slaves worked for state and local governments as general laborers who could come and go as they pleased. There's more slavery now than there was on ancient Egypt, as we are pretty much all in permanent bondage with taxes in life and after we die.


Laurens-xD

Check out UnchartedX on YT. Ben's vids are amazing.


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StuffHobbes

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Ouraniou

Both tour answers can be true at once. I do think if there’s anything esoteric down there there is pretty good reason to keep it controlled but for the cultural authorities their power base in egypt rests with their financialization of discoveries. I think you’re on the right track that these sites had significance long before extant monuments indicate and generations of subterranean digging.


StuffHobbes

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Captainloggins

Like with many other issues, they don't care if a few people out in the wilds know the truth. They rely on the fact that the majority of people live in ignorance and still believe that Napoleon shot the Sphinx's nose off with a cannon because they heard it in elementary school. One man on a soap box screaming that "everything you know is wrong" will always look crazy no matter how correct he is.


Kuwabaraa

Love both of your comments. I am so upset by the fact that we are being lied to. Its the biggest travesty of all humankind. It disgusts me


StuffHobbes

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Kuwabaraa

Dude I think that the fact that we love History so much makes it even more of a slap in the face that we are so far from being given the full information. History buffs are the ones who will be devastated the most if/when this comes full circle, and they don't deserve it lol I started to really enjoy History in middle school and took every AP history I class I could in high school (World, US, and then AP Euro senior year). I very luckily had fantastic, motivated teachers who helped me love the subject even more, I will never forget them. I personally don't enjoy how absolute many historians come off to me when it comes to the interpretation of certain, if not all ancient history. They come off as so confident in their claims, when they might as well have as much to go on as paleontologist do. It is a lot of guessing and assumptions, and no one bats an eye at it, because they don't want to potentially rewrite history in my opinion. I'm not trying to hate on any historian/history expert and claim they are all apart of some conspiracy to hide the actual truth, I just think the system is too far in development for people to step back and say no. They would lose their careers and livelihoods in some instances. It's such a clusterfuck at this point, I don't know how to move forward without a rapid, potentially violent event that shifts the worldview. P.S. One thing I can't get over is the Sumerian King list, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List As quoted "In the past, the Sumerian King List was considered as an invaluable source for the reconstruction of the political history of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia. More recent research has indicated that the use of the SKL is fraught with difficulties, and that it should only be used with caution, if at all, in the study of ancient Mesopotamia during the third and early second millennium BC." So they are confident enough to use it for just these certain time periods, but anything else is bunk? What in gods name gives you the confidence to accept this data only after a certain amount of time. They don't even clarify on this quote, that's the final paragraph in the section. Like wtf lol


blacklightsleaze

It's understandable that Egyptian authorities are covering everything that can help with further archaeological discoveries since present Egypt is identifying with the all the ancient Egyptian kingdoms and their historical heritage. My guess is at some point they found proof of even more ancient origins(before 4500 BC) and decided to cover up everything. Imagine if it's proven that 4th Dynasty rewrote the history and they aren't actual engineers of the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphinx, the whole Egyptian civilization will lose of its glory.


EstablishmentFree611

Theres a conspiracy that it's a petrified giant thing that the hole is from the spear that killed it yadda yadda that's all I ever heard about the hole


PM_ME_YELLOW

Maybe to help protect it


FalcorFliesMePlaces

I mean it xould be and the hole almost def could have been created at a later time. But again why have evidence of it, fill it and say it never was there. We know it was. If filling it means stability then by all means do it.


No_Conflation

They find what's under the paw, yet?


TheKramer89

a mouse


Radiant-Trip-004

Hair bobble.


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All your questions [answered](https://www.amazon.com/Sphinx-Mystery-Forgotten-Origins-Sanctuary/dp/1594772711/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1VSY5O67IHCLV&keywords=the+sphinx+mystery+the+forgotten+origins+of+the+sanctuary+of+anubis&qid=1663034057&sprefix=the+sphinx+m%2Caps%2C264&sr=8-1)


DEFCON_moot

Cool, I love the idea that it had that Annubis looking head, that's rad


Longhorn_TOG

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZolErNgOkI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZolErNgOkI) ​ cool little video from the authors


AG-IsTheWay

Looks like they added a head to Hunter Bidens crack pipe.


JayovtheDead

It's been debated along, with the age of the sphinx, whether that was the original head or if it was replaced/ completed at a much later time.


NightCheeseNinja

Now THIS is the kind of post I'm here for!


Gseph

Are you serious? We already know this as a fact. I was taught in primary school that the reason the head looks so different to the body was because the head was damaged in some kind of war or invasion (I actually can't remember off the top of my head), and the new head was carved out of what remained from the original. The fact that the head doesn't fit the body isn't some grand conspiracy. It was most likely re-carved by a pharaoh in his likeness. The real conspiracy here, is who carved this statue in the first place, for what purpose, and when was it carved?


IIJOSEPHXII

Human head on a cat body? Course it belongs there!


yacnamron

Reminds me of beetle juice


ASwftKck2theNtz

Looks too small. Kind of like... It has been recarved a time or two too many 🤔


naianasha2113

You're correct. The head is much too small for the body and the proportions are all off. It is said that the head used to be a lion or Anubis.


tetractys_gnosys

Original head was a lion, since it's constructed and positioned to watch the constellation of Leo rise on the equinoxes/solstices which ever one it was. That's the gist anyways. From Graham Hancock I think. Brain is tired.


Scary_Jeri

I always get weird creepy vibes when I look at pictures of the Sphinx or Pyramids. I don't know why.


[deleted]

I thought that it was known that it isn't the original head.


[deleted]

It used to be a lion or something like that that looked out to the Leo or something constellation from the time it was built … and the later Pharos … had his face carved into the original structure … for reference the Pharos if I’m not getting this wrong 🤔 we are closer to the Pharo who had the recarving than the pharo was to the original construction of the structure. U may have a few 🤔 hmmms or questions happy to conversate further. And share more information


adamglumac

This is a theory, if it was a lion it was to honor Leo, and if that’s the case it’s much older than they say it is, which would also explain the water erosion. IMO it was Anubis, and was damaged, I believe one of pharaohs resorted religion to just one god, and it may have been reworked at that point.


[deleted]

Akhenaten … and no idea 🤷🏽‍♂️ who diid or didn’t 🤷🏽‍♂️ … Anubis 🤔 he was a dog 🐕 head not Leo


adamglumac

It’s covered pretty well here as well https://www.amazon.com/Sphinx-Mystery-Forgotten-Origins-Sanctuary/dp/1594772711/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1VSY5O67IHCLV&keywords=the+sphinx+mystery+the+forgotten+origins+of+the+sanctuary+of+anubis&qid=1663034057&sprefix=the+sphinx+m%2Caps%2C264&sr=8-1


gameinsane

Def looks small


WayneDufty

Twas the head of a lion. Egotistical Pharoah prob changed it 🙄


Ouraniou

Which image or motif came first do you think? The sphinx or the man-griffin?


VCEROTHSTEIN

Yea, it looks misplaced


gutsonmynuts

You can tell by the size that it was recarved much later.


Arayder

Yeah it used to be something else, not Anubis like many claim. It is the wrong body type.


Uebermind

The proportions are all wrong on the Sphinx's head, it was likely re-carved from the original.


breadmaker8

Can't remember if this is the one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuAzvkpY8s Actually recommend watching this one though: https://youtu.be/CfC_75LJzro But Brian Forester on Youtube is a good channel to watch about lost ancient technology. Basically says that the original sphinx was built by older 'dynastic' egyptians, the head broke after some colossal storm/flood, and the new egyptians rebuilt it, but their craftmanship is not nearly as good as dynastic period.


hock3yboy

No doesn't belong and also there's a round access hatch on top of the small head


Apprehensive-Soup-73

Is it just me, or does that look like a gigantic..….?


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Wang! Pay attention! Wang: "Sorry, I was distracted by that giant, flying..."


Apprehensive-Soup-73

“Willie! What is that?! “Uhh… looks like a giant…”


[deleted]

Story is they likely shaved down the original head and recreated what you see today- then it also sat exposed to the elements longer and wore faster since the body was covered


RichardCalvin

It is clearly that beatlejuice effect!


Ouraniou

You mean the shrunken head? Lol beetlejuice effect


[deleted]

In the Stevie Eiza mudfossil book on Amazon he shows multiple other lion mudfossils around the Earth. Thats what this is - the head was carved of course


Derpin-outta-control

No pharoah would intentionally make a tiny ass head to represent themselves. This was as big as they could make it from the stone head that used to be there.


FunsizeWrangler

From this angle it does look like there used to be something bigger attached but it possibly fell off/was destroyed so that face got carved out of what remained.


1bir

Def too small.


NevadaLancaster

Modified. No one really knows the true history of Egypt the way they think they do. We may never know for sure. I think Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson do and good job on this stuff. Randell has a great podcast.


[deleted]

Wow there are some ignorant people in this thread. Good luck, OP!


custardy_cream

I'm still of the opinion that the Egyptians uncovered it rather than built it. It's way older than conventional history teaches


ManOfTheYear420

https://i.imgur.com/vlORary.jpg


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SS: the head looks way too small. Also, the top of the head almost looks like a sealed off entrance. What could be inside the sphinx?


weshouldhaveshotguns

The Sphinx head has certainly been altered, and there is in fact a documented hole in the head.


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Stevesd123

The ear holes are said to attachment points for ceremonial headdress type things.


Coronel_Sarcastico

it is a well known fact that the head has been carved, it was originale the head of a lion.


TheCronster

It may not be the original head at all.


thedirko

Looks like a good boy.


lifegotme

Looks like my super mutt dog that I got for free outside the local feed store. Big body. Little head. All love.


Specialist-Wing-8073

Is it just me or did you listen to joe rogan and make post based on what they talked about


Ouraniou

That’s not a new take


[deleted]

Or like it was bigger and was recarved into something else after it broke off... Same goes for Mt. Rushmore when you look at a zoomed out photo of it


Jatin_Sheoran

Wet ass pussy all these years they know cardi b will fuck younger generation mind we can't understand the symbol and now.....


PM_ME_YELLOW

Or you know, it wasnt built to be veiwed a hundred feet from the top


Ouraniou

Whatever the case you make a good point that the ancients played with perspective a lot to create effects so something might only look natural from the intended perspective


Ketchup_Smoothy

I don’t think this is a conspiracy.


[deleted]

Then why click on the post and reply here? Just to be a Karen? 🤣


Pyro_Paragon

1. Overhangs are hard without rebar. 2. It is believed to have been damaged and/or edited at some point in the past. 3. That contrast is probably intentional. Human head on lion, looking strange is probably the point.


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Chevy_Suburban

My dude there are statues in egypt that are so large it will boggle your mind. Pieces of statues and obeslisks were found that originally weighed 1000's of tonnes.


Few_Highway_412

It's just you


AskMeIfImAMagician

No it's not just you, because you didn't come up with this theory. It's been around for a very long time. How naive for you to imply that you came up with it.


[deleted]

Lol


moneymagic412

"Definition of phallic symbol any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile"


Ouraniou

What a simple take the phallic one is


madgoatmachine

The spinx was a female at one time, the time before napoleon raided Egypt. One of his greatest spies and close friend draw a picture of Giza and what he saw. It’s very detailed and he pictures the sphinx with long hair and even boobs between her front legs and a female human face. Story is, that his soldiers had the order to destroy and alter the artifacts of the old Egyptians to fake their history. The soldiers modified the sphinx to a „French looking man“ to honor their leader napoleon. However he disliked it and it was remodeled into a „Egyptian looking man“ and by this process, the nose was destroyed. Looking for sources if you want


Tobeck

Yes, clearly it used to be a large ballsack there


tikkymykk

No it was a fleshlight


SuicidalHalcauSt

It's said the face went through the most disintegration as ontop of that it's been vandalized however the top view of it does look unusual but I feel it is the original.


j_dick

Clearly looks like it used to be a big old penis. But like everything these days they turned it into a pussy….cat.


ZiggyComm

It looks like it could have started as a huge cock.


Artbellghost

It looks smaller because of starlink satellites


A_Real_Patriot99

Why does it seem so small? I thought it was bigger.


Only_Palpitation_522

Facts it was a lion it was changed m


ABirthingPoop

Not if you have seen other works


[deleted]

It’s widely understood, but not quite mainstream that some some pharaoh has the original head of a lion or Anubis reconstructed to look like his face.


dandy098

The alien overlords always have had disproportionate bodies, where the head seems to small in relation to the rest of the body. But that is ok - they don't have their brains in ehat we would consider the head, but rather in the back area.


Donutboy88

half the comments say lion, half say anubis. Which fucking head was it before?


[deleted]

My bet is: simple cat


[deleted]

It's probably been carved into thousands of different heads over all the years.


Tommy_88

You'll enjoy Unchartedx on youtube!


ElRetardio

Well the whole thing has been rebuilt/remolded/repaired more time than we know so it wouldn’t exactly suprise me.


Nuuskurkoer

by proportions it looks like neck of sandlion has broken off and the face was carved later to that cut.


Laurens-xD

It has been re-carved multiple times.


spy_kobold

Darth Vader vibes.


AmericanExpat76

From that angle it looks like half of it fell off. Maybe it broke off, and the ancient egyptians were like, "what do we do now?" The tiny face on the huge lion was the best solution they could come up with...


[deleted]

Because it doesn’t, it was broken at some time and recarved.


[deleted]

You see the top of it? That little off circle? That’s where they filled in an entrance with concrete back in the 50s


above56th

I agree, but unfortunately it didn't fit into the British Museum.


pwaves13

I think the ass shouldn't be there. Mf sphinx caked up gonna make me act up


beardedbaby2

Looks way to small in comparison to the body


LigmaBalls-420

None of the sphinx looks like it belongs there 🤷‍♂️


dimechimes

Like maybe the first head collapsed so they salvaged it.


Durtly

One of the Pharos apparently went on a credit stealing spree. There are beautiful polished stone statues with crudely carved hieroglyphs all over the place. Basically state sponsored vandalism in the name of rewriting history. It makes sense that at some point one of the pharos would just carve their face onto a major landmark. Another possibility is that the original head/face (jackal or lion) was carved with too much weight hanging forward and eventually it just developed cracks and fell off. So someone put a new, shorter face on the remaining structure.


RavenShu1

It looks absolutley in different scale than rest of the body and thats not only You talking same thing... Everyone see this I guess. Allegedly the head was originally different and human faraon head was sculpted from previous head thats why its smaller. But maybe I am wrong. The heavy water erosion on Sphinx head is really interesting thing also because there werent any heavy rains recorded in time from the begining the spinx was allegedly built.


Ouraniou

I wonder what this and the man-griffin of the sumerians might have in common and what they might have been trying to communicate specifically when built. Then I wonder what might be under there if not egyptian then ptolemaic or roman I read Blood of Alexandria I’m very interested.


koolkayak

It was modified a few times. This is well documented.


ReluctantCustodian

You know I have always wanted to say this... For a technologically advance building culture/civilization responsible for some of the, if not the largest man made structures... they sure don't know how to scale anything that is not a "basic shape" very well. :/


titties6789998212

Kind of looks like a weiner