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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by lodovic on Thursday May 16, 2024 @01:16PM (#40380796)
That was debunked, the same erosion was found in the rock at the quarry site where the stones for the Sphinx were originally taken from.
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by taejavu on Thursday May 16, 2024 @03:27PM (#40382133)
How did the erosion happen? At what time period was that much water there?
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by robbiep on Thursday May 16, 2024 @04:07PM (#40382554)
You know sand and wind erode as well, right?
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by nvilcins on Friday May 17, 2024 @02:39AM (#40387087)
Different ways of erosion leave different kinds of traces. The ones in the Sphinx enclosure are indicative of water (more specifically - rainfall) erosion.
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by colibri727 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @07:20PM (#40384526)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_pump_theory

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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by alephnerd on Thursday May 16, 2024 @01:20PM (#40380829)
Also, Schwaller de Lubicz was very loco and racist (very antisemitic and was close with a number of the earlier ideologues of the Thule movement)
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by beeandapenguin on Thursday May 16, 2024 @06:14PM (#40383970)
The Sphinx wasn't built with stone from a quarry, it was carved from the bedrock. It has since been restored a number of times, one of which added layers of limestone block which is easily distinguishable from the original shape.
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by lodovic on Friday May 17, 2024 @03:09AM (#40387250)
Flint Dibble explains it a lot better than I can, around 11:00 in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oITaI2kDIFI
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