AT-1787

Who Built the Sphinx?

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John Anthony West

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Ancient Egypt Research Associates archaeological account of the Sphinx within the Giza construction landscape and Khafre-associated sequence; contextual evidence rather than a single-inscription builder claim.

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John Anthony West

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West promoted the claim that Sphinx weathering implied a pre-dynastic monument and older civilization, but the listed archaeological and geoarchaeological sources do not establish either conclusion.

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West helped popularize older-Sphinx claims, while the listed archaeological and geoarchaeological sources do not support the extreme redating.

The evidence does not automatically support broader causal, technological, transmission, or literalizing claims beyond the cited record.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

Observed weathering does not by itself establish a pre-dynastic Sphinx or a lost advanced civilization.

The evidence does not automatically support broader causal, technological, transmission, or literalizing claims beyond the cited record.