This wall was entirely removed apart of a small portion, which was incorporated into the Sphinx Temple.
The Sphinx Temple was built on the foundation of the preexisting northern enclosure wall of the Valley Temple. Įvidence suggests that both the Sphinx and its temple were created only after Khafre's Valley Temple and causeway: It was created by carving it out of the bedrock, cutting blocks from around its body which were used to construct the Sphinx Temple immediately east of the Sphinx and north of the Valley Temple, aligned to it. The Sphinx is positioned north of the lower end of the causeway of Khafre that connects his Pyramid- and Valley Temple. Sphinx and Sphinx Temple (right), Khafre Valley Temple with causeway running past the Sphinx (left) Archaeological context He originally estimated the Sphinx to have been created before 5000 BC, later pushing his minimum estimate further back to 9700 BC, once again aligning it with Plato's lost civilization of Atlantis. The following year Schoch formulated and presented his version of the hypothesis, purposely avoiding the use of the word "Atlantis". In 1990 they traveled together to Egypt, visiting the Sphinx. Ten years later, West sought the opinion of geologist Robert Schoch to validate his claims. By denying the existence of any evidence for the development of Egyptian civilization prior to the first dynasty, West created room to inject the idea of a lost, advanced civilization of Atlanteans who created the Sphinx and passed on their knowledge to the dynastic Egyptians. In 1979, Author and alternative Egyptologist John Anthony West, inspired by Schwaller's ideas, attributed the erosion to Nile floods between 15,000 and 10,000 BC. In the 1950s, French mystic and alternative Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz speculated the body of the Sphinx to be eroded by deluges and that therefore the Sphinx must predate them, further claiming that ancient Egyptian knowledge originated from colonists or refugees of Plato's sunken continent of Atlantis. See also: Atlantis § Atlantis_pseudohistory
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