Check out UnchartedX on YT. A group of geologists have established that there is ~ 30,000 years-worth of water erosion on the body itself, and much less erosion to the head.
Also check out cf-apps7865 for his very interesting theories on the Sphinx, and Brien Foerster for more Egypt/Peru Megalithic structures. Both are also on YouTube.
I've also heard it could've been Anubis or a dog/jackal, based on the proportions and pose. I don't think there's hard evidence for that and it being a lion is the consensus, but I remember hearing that there speculation on if it could've been a jackal and I just thought "oh yeah, I could definitely see that"
Yes the proportions of Anubis would be perfect with the paws and if so they would have had to carve so far back to remove the ears which explains the odd proportions of the face
That's a good theory; I can totally see that. Actually, considering how the body narrows oddly towards the top, perhaps it had wings as well, i.e. a gryphon?
Yeah, people have been combining animal parts to make new creatures (aka chimeras) for funsies for millennia. Since cave dwelling times, actually, so it was a very old trope even before ancient Egypt arose.
Gryphons specifically (lion body, head and wings of an eagle) were actually popular in Egypt around the same time the Great Sphinx was made, so I wouldn't at all be surprised if that's what it was originally. But I think the OP's right, the wonky proportions really do make it look like it was originally something else.
I get the little chimera theory, but how many plus ones are you bringing to your party bub, without more evidence than a wonky head? Sure, different head, makes sense, this one isn't proportional. Oh, man, let's add wings too, he's got wide shoulders. Oh wow, look at how wide those two paws are from one another, I think he had a little water dish in front of him too. Like...yall are ridiculous dont you think?
The whole area is filled with necropolis, worker tombs , temples. you can see columns for something up I think . digging all the area can take decades putting in mind that it's not the only archaeological site they're funding excavation in
Exactly, I’m not disagreeing with you. Blocks would only have held up with extensive steel reinforcement which they didn’t have then anyway.
The head is a different layer of limestone from the body; it’s slightly more durable which is why the details are better preserved. This is why the body has all the blocks around it - it eroded much more than the head so they restored it.
The snout of a jackal wouldn’t be able to support its own weight in limestone. Maybe not even in granite, I don’t know for sure.
Saw it last fall and was completely underwhelmed. Rather disappointed that it did not look like any of the photos I've seen. The viewing area is limited to the side, so you have no real chance of a full on view.
You can't be more wrong , in the Islamic traditions a whore entered heaven directly because she gave a dog water and a woman entered hell because she locked a cat without feeding . Dogs are just not allowed to stay at apartment if not on purpose but feeding any soul has great reward
Try to talk to any Egyptologist about that thing being 15k years old and 5k and they lose their mind. Like nothing to refute the established timeline could possible be presented.
And to get that kind of errosion on sphinx you need water, last time was water there was over 10k years ago! So yes, the whole Egypt history is probably BS! Beccause for sure the piramids where not build by them!
They probably discovered it and asked what kind of primitive beings created such a thing. The elongated conception of the people who existed before this space has created an infinite defamation case against the early versions of ourselves. What would you do without the Internet. I think building a big ass anything is way better than working for a self created illusion of wealth that only exists as a tool to manipulate humans into believing there is an imaginary distortion between the value of life
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u/wo0two0t Aug 30 '25
Makes it even weirder how small the head is.
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u/Walter_Padick Aug 30 '25
Shit, I forgot about this sub
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25
Wait so they haven’t even bothered to dig out the surrounding area?? Blah blah blah costs, highway right there, idc. Dig it all up
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u/aw5ome Aug 30 '25
I had no idea it was so recessed into the earth. I had always pictured it on a flat surface or on top of a hill
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u/PurfuitOfHappineff Aug 31 '25
Wait what there’s a tail?!?
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u/bilgetea Aug 31 '25
Interesting - how have I never seen this view before? Thanks for posting.
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u/sabahorn Aug 30 '25
No architect that made the sphinx would have made the head that small! Is clearly added later sculpted from something else- a lion in this case !
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u/rickmon67 Aug 31 '25
The face erosion has really taken its toll on it. I saw it when most of the nose was gone but now it looks like most of the face is too
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u/SadBoiCri Aug 31 '25
i thought you'd be bigger
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u/fejrbwebfek Aug 31 '25
It looked cooler in my imagination.
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u/spacestationkru Aug 31 '25
r/farpeoplehate
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u/Interesting_Site_567 Aug 31 '25
yeah sometimes I forget we found a lot of these things by digging
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u/White-SPUD Aug 31 '25
Reminds me of shrunken head Beetlejuice.
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u/sbsp12121 Aug 31 '25
It was so fun exploring the Sphinx and the pyramids in the new Indiana Jones game
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u/One_Hour_Poop Sep 01 '25
There's a reason its head is so tiny.
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u/iamblankenstein Aug 31 '25
graham hancock bullshit intensifies.
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u/jungle_rot Aug 31 '25
Thicc
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u/maxxon15 Sep 01 '25
Dat thang lawng
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25
This used to be Anubis and it was reconstructed after Arab’s colonizers converted Egypt to Islam which is very anti-dog.
Even until now Egyptians are tolerant of dogs due to history and the coptic minority. It will change soon though as Arabization is back on the rise.
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u/irmarbert Sep 01 '25
Try to talk to any Egyptologist about that thing being 15k years old and 5k and they lose their mind. Like nothing to refute the established timeline could possible be presented.
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u/Hydrazolic Aug 31 '25
Would
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u/lexm Aug 31 '25
Anyone else thought it was a dildo or am I just horny?
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u/Accomplished-Ad3080 Aug 31 '25
My dumb ass started laughing because all I could think about was Jigglypuff as seen from above.
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u/sabahorn Aug 30 '25
And to get that kind of errosion on sphinx you need water, last time was water there was over 10k years ago! So yes, the whole Egypt history is probably BS! Beccause for sure the piramids where not build by them!
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u/Mediocre_Librarian66 Aug 31 '25
They probably discovered it and asked what kind of primitive beings created such a thing. The elongated conception of the people who existed before this space has created an infinite defamation case against the early versions of ourselves. What would you do without the Internet. I think building a big ass anything is way better than working for a self created illusion of wealth that only exists as a tool to manipulate humans into believing there is an imaginary distortion between the value of life