Rob Neyland: The Great Sphinx Revelation

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Rob Neyland: University of Colorado, Journalism, Advertising, Anthropology. Child of a military family, he travelled the world growing up, fueling a lifelong interest in the ancient world. He resides in the ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado, and is an avid skier, sailor, mountain biker and sculptor. He has been a real estate broker and sculptor there for the last 42 years. As a sculptor in snow, he has performed in international competition all over the world and has won the gold medal on three continents. Curiously, it was this expertise in reductive monumental sculpture that inspired his passion about the carving of the Great Sphinx and other monuments of ancient Egypt. After years of reading about it, he travelled to Egypt with Robert Schoch and Manu Seyfzadeh in 2019 and subsequently wrote a paper about the possible re-carving of the Sphinx from a sculptor’s viewpoint. He returned to Egypt in 2022 to further his research on this subject.

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0:15.2	We know so little about this thing, who carved it?
0:18.5	The Egyptological reference to Caffrey is all over it, but we now know that Caffrey did repairs.
0:27.7	He did not have it carved originally.
0:30.7	In fact, the estimates that John Anthony West have for the Great Sphinx are
0:36.3	between 15 and 20,000 years ago.
0:40.8	His partner in their research, Dr. Robert Shock, believes it's more like 12 to 15,000 years,
0:48.1	but that's still significantly older than the 4,600 years that Egyptologist claim Caffrey
0:55.9	carved the Sphinx.
0:57.6	Today, we have new evidence, new evidence from a research team that Caffrey actually made repairs.
1:05.2	He did not assign the artisans to carve it originally.
1:09.9	And we have this data coming to us from a new discovery made in a pyramid complex
1:16.6	known as King Unus Pyramid in Sikara, as part of the Pyramid text, which are inside the inner
1:25.2	tomb of this pharaoh.
1:27.7	We have details of what Caffrey did, and the problems associated with him recarving this
1:35.1	Sphinx head from a lioness to his own image.
1:41.6	All this and more today on Earth Ancients.
2:05.1	For Saturday, July 16, 2022, this is Earth Ancients, I'm your host, Cliff Dunning.
2:29.9	John West has some daring theories of his own about the Sphinx, starting with its head.
2:37.3	Now you look at the head, you see that it's in much better condition than the body.
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