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Weathering of limestone beds at the Great Sphinx

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Sphinx

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Peer-reviewed geological study of differential limestone weathering; supports multi-factor material analysis and cautions against dating the carving from one visible erosion form.

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An Old Kingdom and Khafre-context interpretation and multi-process weathering evidence do not make a much older date from one erosion form secure.

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Cayce’s readings supply modern claim genealogy, but the listed Sphinx mapping, heritage, and geology sources provide no archaeological basis for an Atlantean archive beneath the monument.

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