it is no secret that Egypt is the birthplace of a variety of mysteries and numerous myths about
the past and world's Beginnings the oldest known Monumental sculpture of the Middle Eastern nation
is the mythical Egyptian Limestone structure which depicts a fictitious sprawling Sphinx there are
several sphinxes but only the Great Sphinx of Giza is known to have held as many Secrets according to
rumors researchers have discovered a new hidden room beneath the Sphinx which was built almost
4 500 years ago and this speaks the interest of the tech billionaire Elon Musk Egypt has extended
an invitation to billionaire Elon Musk to travel there and verify that the world famous pyramids
were not constructed by extraterrestrials the CEO of SpaceX had posted what appeared to be
encouragement for those who believe aliens were engaged in the gigantic construction project join
me as we unravel this legendary structure and how the archaeologists were stunned when they
Unearthed secret tunnels and Chambers beneath the enormous Giza Sphinx today and will it prove Elon
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you would surely mention Egypt's magnificent pyramids if someone asked you what it was renowned
for but in this arid Nation there is another place that dominates Travelers itineraries that is the
Great Sphinx of Giza the Great Sphinx of Giza is a massive Limestone statue of a recumbent
Sphinx that is situated in Giza it is one of the most well-known specimens of sphinx art and one
of the largest sculptures in the entire world but there are still many unanswered questions
around the creation of the site like why when and how let's examine the controversies and
Mysteries surrounding this sculpture one of the masterpieces created by ancient Egyptian culture
is the statue of the Great Sphinx the impressive statue is still standing after many years it is
regarded as a testament to the Excellence of the ancient Egyptians and the growth of their
thoughts and skills that enabled them to create this masterpiece the Sphinx's origin and whether
or not it represents a human personality who lived in the time of the ancient Egyptians are topics
that a lot of people are unaware of most academics concur that the Sphinx's Origins are in the fourth
Dynasty and that King coffrey's Reign is when it first appeared other researchers contend that it
was constructed by coffrey's elder brother jijifrey to honor their paternal grandfather
kufu whose Giza Pyramid is widely known as the Great Pyramid of chiops due to its enormous size
according to Advocates of this theory coffrey is more like Khufu than coffrey in the face of
the Great Sphinx it has also been suggested that Khufu actually constructed the statue in light of
this observation over time the Sphinx's form has undergone a significant transformation numerous
attempts have been attempted to maintain the statue since ancient times perhaps starting
during the reign of thutmos IV when the body is most vulnerable to where the nose is conspicuously
missing from the face which has obviously been disfigured some claim that the Sphinx's nose
was shot with a cannon by Napoleon's forces the Sphinx did not have a nose nevertheless as seen
in drawings from before Napoleon Encyclopedia Britannica has a different theory that claims
the Sufi Muhammad Siam aldar vandalized the statue in the 14th century to protest
idolatry this Sphinx was designed to resemble a legendary animal with a lion's body and a human
head it stands for a significant figure in Greek and Egyptian mythology and art Greek grammarians
created the word Sphinx from the verb svingine but the derivation has nothing to do with myth
an early Greek writer referred to him as fix one of the biggest monuments in the world the Great
Sphinx is 73 meters in width and 20 meters in length the Great Sphinx at Giza is known to have
a number of shafts or tunnels within or below its main body the little square lid of the shaft is
thought to have been excavated by treasure hunters in Antiquity known shaft locations
include two on the Sphinx's flanks and one at the top of its head for a total of at least three
excavations beneath the main body of the Sphinx at Giza were undertaken in 1998 by zahi hawas Chief
director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities which led to the rediscovery of access tunnels to
many sizable seemingly natural caves ancient digs from the past were also discovered known shafts
and holes four feet behind the head on the back of the Sphinx lies a hole perring's hole named after
his engineer is a construction project by Howard Vice from the 1840s Vice dug a 27-foot deep hole
in search of Chambers but the drill Rod got caught to avoid harming the Sphinx any further he made an
attempt to remove the rod using gunpowder but gave up zahi hawas discovered a piece
of the Sphinx's headdress inside the cavity Vice had left when he cleaned it out in 1978.
Eastern shaft between the footmost for dream steel and the Sphinx's chest is a trapdoor made of iron
that is fixed to the ground inside of its paws as part of his restoration work in the 1920s Berets
filled the opening which is not a corridor but rather a roughly rectangular hole with a cement
roof an iron beam and then sealed it with a trap door shaft a this large hole shaft a on the top of
the Sphinx's skull was likewise cemented over by Berets the pit is roughly six feet deep and about
five feet square the hole's mouth was covered with an iron trap door according to one Theory the hole
was originally made to attach a headpiece on the Sphinx in the new kingdom style but it was later
deepened in an effort to find hidden rooms a worker can be seen standing inside the Giza
Sphinx's head hole in an image shot during Emile barreza's excavations in 1925 CE vivandenon etched
a picture of the Sphinx somewhere about 1798. albeit he didn't exactly copy it he had drawn a
picture of a man being dragged out so it's likely that he was aware that the top of its head had
a hole shaft C on the back of the enormous Giza Sphinx lie shaft C it has a dead end and a square
shaft shaft D this shaft which is located on the floor in the Northwest back half of the Sphinx was
first made public in 1980 by zahi hawas and Mark laner Mohammed Abdi al-magood Fayed an engineer
for the Antiquity service who had assisted Emil barrez in removing the Sphinx in 1926 as a young
man was the one who first reported this the water table is below the Sphinx and can be reached via
this route a dead end is reached about 4.5 meters below floor level in one section of the passage
that descends beneath the Sphinx in the upward curve of the rump shaft D in the Northwest Passage
would be an open trench if it weren't for the layers of old restoration stones that have been
placed on top of it the debris slightly above this point comprised contemporary materials like glass
cement tin foil Etc it was discovered in 1980-81 that the bottom half did in fact reach the water
table there are footholds in the shape of Cups along the walls of the roughly cut Corridor
whose sides are not straight it appears to be an exploration shaft Keyhole shaft the shaft e
is another well-known Hollow that is located in the Giza Sphinx enclosure but is not related to
the Sphinx itself in the enclosures floor beneath the north ledge of the wall just across from the
north hind paw lies the so-called Keyhole shaft a little more than six feet deep the passage is
roughly 4.5 by 3.5 feet inside the shaft was a sizable piece of Base salt with one side smoothed
out perhaps the corridor was intended to be a tomb but it was never finished according to Legend the
Great Sphinx at the Giza Pyramid complex has a library called the Hall of Records buried beneath
it similar to how The Great Library of Alexandria held Greek information it is set to contain
the wisdom of the Egyptians on Papyrus Scrolls although there is some disagreement as to whether
the hall genuinely exists all excavation in the region has so far produced few or no results
in 1980 laner hired Tom egner a young German geologist who had an Innovative idea for
demonstrating how the Sphinx was an essential component of coffrey's Greater architectural
complex over tens of millions of years mud coral and the shells of organisms like Plankton are
squeezed together to form Limestone egner and laner made an inventory of the various fossils
that make up the Limestone by examining samples from the Sphinx Temple and the Sphinx itself the
blocks that were used to construct the Temple's wall must have come from the ditch surrounding
the Sphinx according to the fossil fingerprints the Sphinx was reportedly being carved out of the
stone when workers pulled away the Quarry blocks needed to build the temple most likely using ropes
and wooden sledges more and more evidence points to coffrey having orchestrated the building of his
pyramid the temples and the Sphinx hawas stated that the majority of scholars believe as I do in
his 2006 book mountain of the Pharaohs that the Sphinx represents coffery and forms an integral
part of his pyramid complex nevertheless who was responsible for the Sphinx's laborious
construction an American Tourist was thrown from her horse in the 1990 desert ride when it stumbled
on a low mud brick wall which was located half a mile south of the Sphinx a cemetery from the Old
Kingdom was found after hawasa's investigation there were Graves for 600 persons some of whom
were overseers whose tombs were surrounded by the more modest Graves of common laborers and
marked with inscriptions containing their names and titles nine years later laner found his Lost
City close to the graveyard he and hawas have known there were structures there since the
middle of the 1980s however they didn't Discover it was a village larger than 10 football fields
old and dated to coffrey's Reign until they dug up and studied the area four groups of eight
lengthy mud brick Barracks made up its Center each building had a pillared portico sleeping
platforms and a kitchen that had been extended to fit about 50 people sleeping side by side
according to laner the barracks could have held 1600 to 2000 workers or perhaps more if
the sleeping accommodations were on two levels the food of the employee suggests they were not
slaves Prime Beef was discovered by leaner's team in the form of predominantly male cattle that were
under two years old according to laner ordinary Egyptians may have joined and left the work crew
on a rotating basis as part of a national service or feudal duty to their superiors
leaner and Rick Brown a professor of sculpture at the Massachusetts College of Art worked
on replicas of ancient tools found on the Giza plateau and depicted in Tomb paintings this past
fall as part of a Nova documentary project in an effort to learn more about the construction of the
Sphinx they sculpted a scaled down version of the missing nose of the Sphinx from a limestone block
the Egyptians had no access to iron or bronze tools 45 Millennia ago in addition to Copper
chisels for finely finished work they mostly used Stone hammers with the help of art students Brown
bashed away in the yard of his studio in Boston and discovered that the copper chisels went
blunt after just a few strikes and needed to be resharpened in a forge he built out of a charcoal
furnace as reported by laner and brown one worker could carve a cubic foot of stone in a week
according to estimates 100 individuals would need three years to finish building the Sphinx at such
a rate laner has thoughts about that as well some of which are founded in part on his work at the
Sphinx Temple it is unclear exactly what coffrey wanted the Sphinx to do for him or his country
in front of the Sphinx you can still see the remains of the temple walls they encircle a
courtyard that is surrounded by 24 pillars a pair of modest niches or sanctuaries each about the
size of a closet serve as clear markers of the temple plans East-West axis an East-West line
points to where the sun rises and sets twice a year during the equinoxes halfway between
mid-summer and mid-winter Herbert Ricky a Swiss archaeologist who investigated the temple in the
late 1960s came to the conclusion that the axis mirrored the movements of the Sun in addition
Ricky contended that each pillar stood for a single hour in the sun's daily cycle laner noticed
something that might be even more amazing a remarkable astronomical occurrence can be observed
at the March or September equinoxes if you are standing in the Eastern Niche around Sunset
the Sun appears to sink into the shoulder of the Sphinx and then into the south side of the Pyramid
of coffrey on the horizon the Shadows of the Sphinx and the pyramid two symbols of the ruler
become merged Silhouettes at the very same instant according to laner hawas agrees saying the Sphinx
represents coffrey as Horus the Egyptians revered Royal Falcon God who is giving offerings with his
two paws to his father Khufu who is incarnated as the Sun God Ra who Rises and sets in that Temple
this Sphinx itself appears to have symbolized the Pharaoh presenting offerings to the sun
god in the court of the Temple the Sun appears to set halfway between the outlines of the pyramids
of coffrey and Khufu when one is standing close to the Sphinx on the summer solstice which is
another fascinating discovery made by laner the image is reminiscent of the hieroglyph
aquet which means Horizon in English but also represents the cycle of life and rebirth laner
noted in the archive of Oriental research even by coincidence it is impossible to picture the
Egyptians not noticing this ideogram if done on purpose it rates as a significant if not the
most significant instance of architectural illusionism if laner and hawas are correct
confrey's Architects plan for solar events to connect the pyramid Sphinx and Temple as a whole
according to laner the complex served as a cosmic engine that was designed to use the strength of
the Sun and other gods to revive the pharaoh's Spirit In addition to ensuring the dead ruler's
eternal life this transformation also preserved the natural world's overall order including the
change of the seasons the annual flooding of the Nile and people's day-to-day existence
the Sphinx may have represented a variety of things in this holy cycle of death and rebirth
including the guardian of the afterlife and the Giza tombs the sun deity manifested in the live
King coffrey and a representation of the deceased monarch however it appears that coffrey's plan was
never fully implemented the Sphinx show symptoms of incompleteness three stone blocks that had been
left behind while workers were dragging them to construct this fing's Temple were discovered by
howas and laner in 1978 in a remote area of the statue's Quarry Bedrock fragments that have only
been partially quarried can be found around the north edge of the canal that surrounds the Sphinx
the archaeologists also discovered Stone Hammers and beer or water jar fragments here along with
the remains of a workman's lunch and tool kit it appears that the builders left their work
laner is fond of claiming that nobody turned the key and switched it on and that by the time the
Old Kingdom ultimately fell apart around 2130 BC the Desert Sands had started to reclaim the Sphinx
the young Royal it spoke to would go unnoticed for the following seven centuries the Egyptian
prince thutmos went on a Hunting Expedition in the desert felt weary and took a nap in the shade of
the Sphinx according to the legend engraved on a pink Granite block between the Sphinx's Paws the
statue addressed him in a dream and went by the name hori maquette which is also known as Horus
in the horizon or Horus in the horizon it bemoaned the Sans encroachment and its decomposed body the
throne was then offered to thutmos in exchange for assistance by hori maquette it is unknown
if the prince truly had this dream but when he rose to power as Pharaoh futmost IV he assisted
in bringing a cult that revered the Sphinx to the New Kingdom in sculptures reliefs and paintings
all over Egypt sphinxes were frequently shown as a forceful representation of royalty and the
sacrosanct power of the Sun the oldest slabs according to laner's research of the numerous
layers of stone slabs laid like tile work over the Sphinx's deteriorating surface may be as
old as 3 400 years to thutmos's time according to the horimakattail thutmos may have led the
initial effort to restore the Sphinx laner spread one of his many maps of the Sphinx out on a table
when he was in the U.S he added that in the early decades after it was constructed the Sphinx had
suffered damage from the weather he showed where an old trench had cut into the statue
Limestone deteriorates as a result of the porous Rock absorbing moisture what was the source of
so much rain in the allegedly parched desert of Giza which presented additional mystery to laner
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