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I’m only suggesting that theories which are not supported by direct anthropological evidence are worth considering

You can consider an idea and build a theory around it, but once your basic idea is disproven, your whole theory disappears. And the idea that the Sphinx erosion doesn’t match the agreed upon age has already been proven wrong - as in, it has been explained that the observed erosion is perfectly compatible with what rock types are there and with the data that we know since the actual period it was built in, the mid third millenium BCE. So you don’t have your premise that the erosion doesn’t match the official age, and that means there is nothing left to consider here until you actually have something new, anything else is fanfiction.

Considering new idea is perfectly fine, no one disagrees with that, but you are not considering new ideas, you are considering old ideas that were proven wrong and not listening when someone tells you why it’s wrong. Get new material.

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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

it has been explained that the observed erosion is perfectly compatible with what rock types are there and with the data that we know since the actual period it was built in, the mid third millenium BCE

Is it the case then that we should see similar erosion in contemporary local structures? My understanding was that we didn’t, is that not right?

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- Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  youtu.be/DaJWEjimeDM?si=rwX4eZZQvGV22iiR first half is citing two guys who think the Sphinx is older than we think; third guy and after show that the erosion and the faults didn’t come from rain from outside, but water infiltration from below, from before the Sphinx was carved into the rock, and that yes, we do see it in other places in the same rock layer. Other buildings above it don’t have that erosion from below. So the erosion is indeed old, but it didn’t happen from rain falling after the Sphinx was carved out, so you can’t use it to determine when the Sphinx was carved out of the ground.
  
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  - homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks. YT has started requiring a sign-in, but it appears to be only sometimes, so i’ll check it out the next time they feel like letting me in i guess.
    
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    Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t keep up with youtube alternatives but this one doesn’t require login invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=DaJWEjimeDM can’t get the video to load though…
    
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