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AT-1772

Sphinx

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AT-1772

Robert Schoch

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Ancient Egypt Research Associates' Giza-project hub for archaeological context and site research; use the relevant article or report for a specific quarry, temple or sequence claim rather than treating the hub as a blanket rebuttal.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

AT-1771 documents Schoch and Bauval's pre-Pharaonic Sphinx claim, while AT-1769 and AT-1772 do not establish that the Sphinx predates the Old Kingdom by thousands of years.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

Schoch and Bauval advance an older-Sphinx interpretation in AT-1771; peer-reviewed weathering work and AERA site context limit any claim that geology alone fixes a pre-Old-Kingdom date.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

Weathering interpretation cannot by itself identify a builder culture or establish a lost civilization; AT-1771 is claimant genealogy, not independent confirmation.

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