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So while I enjoy that theory, I feel like it's pretty much a more gentle form of the insane mud flooding theories that all buildings are older than we think. We
by atdrummond 5y ago
So while I enjoy that theory, I feel like it's pretty much a more gentle form of the insane mud flooding theories that all buildings are older than we think. We have plenty of contemporary texts confirming construction of these buildings. Nobody else seriously challenges their legitimacy in history other than recent conspiracy theorists.
- Stevvo 5y agoProponents of this theory consider the Great Sphinx as one the best bits of evidence for it precisely because there is not a a single contemporary inscription attributing its construction to Egypt/Khafre.
- ncmncm 5y agoYes, you don't put up a stele claiming credit for repairs to something you built in the first place. Circumstantial evidence for tunnels found in and under the Sphinx is intriguing, and not prima facie implausible. (The Egyptians did love tunneling!) If true, one wonders why authorities continue keeping them secret. Perhaps there will be a big reveal someday in a way calculated to benefit someone's reputation, but it may be that any such reveal could only ever embarrass. The big, empty, precisely-machined boxes in Saqqara with painfully crude exterior surface decorations are another big mystery. Again, one wonders what more authorities know about them than is yet published. All we may be certain of is that the official line is bollocks.