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	The Great Sphinx
		The name 'sphinx' which means 'strangler' was first given by the Greeks to a fabulous creature which had the head of a woman and the body of a lion and the wings of a bird.
		The Egyptian sphinx is usually a head of a king wearing his headdress and the body of a lion.
		The sphinx faces the rising sun with a temple to the front which resembles the sun temples which were built later by the kings of the 5th Dynasty.
	touregypt.net /sphinx.htm (597 words)

	Dating the Sphinx - TinWiki.org
		Other arguments for sphinx antiquity stem from the uncomfortable fact that, though it’s construction is attributed to Kaphre, and the face of the sphinx is supposed to be Kaphre’s face; there exist no records from Kaphre’s reign that would indicate that he decreed that it should be built.
		The Egyptologists based their date of construction of the sphinx on a stela that was placed in front of the sphinx by Tutmoses IV, who is known to have repaired and restored the sphinx in or around 1400 BC.
		The angled portion of the sphinx enclosure is just as weathered as the rest of it; the floor there is weathered similarly to the floor in a similar position on the opposite side of the sphinx.
	tinwiki.org /wiki/Dating_the_Sphinx (2035 words)

	.: Great Sphinx in Giza, Sphinx pyramids sight seeing tour, sightseeing tour sphinx & 3 pyramids
		The great Sphinx, with the body of a kneeling lion and the head of a man, was built during Cephren's time.
		Indeed, the Sphinx's face is thought to have been built in the image of Cephren's.
		Thousands of years have passed, yet the Sphinx is still kneeling gracefully in its exact position, looking thoughtfully towards the East with a smile calm, mysterious and hopeful.
	www.2travel2egypt.com /sightseeing/sphinx.asp (188 words)

	EVERT A. ROBLES art
		The Sphinx, guardian of the Giza plateau, is thought to hide under its enigmatic face the secret of a pyramid of archives where the extraordinary knowledge of an ancient and prestigious civilization is preserved.
		At their presentation at the Geological Society of America's convention in 1991, attending geologists unanimously agreed, on the basis of the extensive photographic evidence presented, that the Sphinx was indeed water weathered.
		The Sphinx is the forerunner of the architectural complex of Giza.
	evertrobles.com /ezine3.005.html (1127 words)

	En Passant: Two of the nation's three most recent National Security Advisers
		Sphinx Head is known for honoring outstanding leaders based on their strength of character and dedication; Quill and Dagger is known for tapping seniors based on their titles and/or positions of influence in Campus organizations.
		Sphinx Head, to my knowledge, has not offered honorary membership to anyone in its 100+ years of history, however their alumni members are much more notable and are more deeply rooted with Cornell.
		Sphinx Head, to my knowledge, has not offered honorary membership to anyone in its 100+ years of history; however the alumni members names that I have found are much more notable and are more deeply rooted with Cornell.
	lawtv.typepad.com /en_passant/2004/12/two_of_the_thre.html (4425 words)

	Sphinx & Pyramids - Dr. Zahi Hawass
		In paintings and reliefs, the human body was drawn with the head in profile, the shoulders and chest frontally, and the lower torso and legs in profile.
		The Sphinx has recently been in the news as its surface is crumbling and some of the ancient veneer stones have fallen off, as well as a chunk of bedrock from the shoulder.
		These were realistically sculpted heads which bore no indication that they had ever been attached to a body, which were placed at the entrance of the burial chamber of certain individuals during the Fourth Dynasty.
	www.zahihawass.com /sphinx_pyramids.htm (4950 words)

	Remnants of a Lost Civilization
		Between the Sphinx and the tomb of Debehen there are numerous rock-cut tombs and, most significant, a yawning open-air quarry 250 yards wide, from which Khufu probably took much of the stone for his pyramid.
		Proceeding west through this quarry, which was later converted to a cemetery of rock-cut tombs, it becomes apparent that as the ground surface rises, layers equivalent to the neck and head of the Sphinx and, farther west, layers that are higher (i.e., younger) in the Mokattam sequence than the Sphinx's head are exposed.
		Schoch and West cite the roundness of the protrusions and recesses in the south wall of the Sphinx ditch as evidence of rain erosion, and believe that fissures in the rock were caused by rainwater after the Sphinx was carved.
	www.guardians.net /hawass/remnants.htm (2290 words)

	Remnants of a Lost Civilization
		South of the Sphinx ditch and causeway, the surface slopes radically to the south.
		Proceeding west through this quarry, which was later converted to a cemetery of rock-cut tombs, it becomes apparent that as the ground surface rises, layers equivalent to the neck and head of the Sphinx and, farther west, layers that are higher (i.e., younger) in the Mokattam sequence than the Sphinx's head are exposed.
		Schoch and West cite the roundness of the protrusions and recesses in the south wall of the Sphinx ditch as evidence of rain erosion, and believe that fissures in the rock were caused by rainwater after the Sphinx was carved.
	guardians.net /hawass/remnants.htm (2290 words)

	sphinx — FactMonster.com
		The sphinx was represented in sculpture usually in a recumbent position with the head of a man and the body of a lion, although some were constructed with rams' heads and others with hawks' heads.
		Sphinxes, however, were not peculiar to Egypt; represented in various shapes and forms, they were common throughout the ancient Middle East and Greece.
		In Greek mythology and art the Sphinx was a winged monster with the head and breasts of a woman and the body of a lion.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0846266.html (154 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Autumn 1999: The Riddle of the Sphinx Part IV: The Secret Chamber
		We learned in the previous installment of The Riddle of the Sphinx that the layout of the Giza necropolis was intended to reflect the patterns of certain constellations, most specifically, the constellation of Orion.
		Hancock and Bauval described at length in The Message of the Sphinx that the ancient Egyptian astronomer priests used their knowledge of astronomy and architecture to lay out the buildings of the Giza necropolis in such a way that their advanced understanding of these disciplines was permanently embedded in them.
		The "Age of the Sphinx" controversy started when John West, in the late 1970's, read in a book by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sacred Science, that the body of the Sphinx appeared to be eroded with water.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/1999/Autumn/Sphinx04 (8265 words)

	The Sphinx: not who you might think!
		The dating of the Sphinx has been a notorious hotbed of alternative speculation for years, since Professor Robert Schoch lent credence to the theory by stating categorically that it shows clear signs of water weathering - something which cannot possibly have happened in Egypt for at least 7000 years.
		For a society obsessed more with the life to come than the present life, being able to pass through the trials of death was vital, and as the guardian of the gates of the Underworld, Anubis was responsible for leading the dead man into the hall of Ma'at to receive divine judgement.
		For the Sphinx to be a representation of Anubis certainly makes more cultural sense for Egypt, because of his role with protection and guidance after death, and because of his importance in the divine hierarchy.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/louxsie/sphinxrant.html (1882 words)

	Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
		The head is jerked forward, while the eyelids are retracted, the medial crest is raised, and the lips are compressed forward.
		The crest on the head is raised, the ears are flattened, and the head is shaken from side-to-side (Mellen et al.
		Sabater Pi, J. Contribution to the ecology of Mandrillus sphinx Linnaeus 1758 of Rio Muni (Republic of Equatorial Guinea).
	members.tripod.com /uakari/mandrillus_sphinx.html (3694 words)

	Message of the Sphinx
		After studying the erosional patterns of the Sphinx, Schoch concluded that the heavy degree of weathering was caused by rainfall and could not have occurred if the Sphinx, like the Great Pyramids, was only 4,500 years old.
		Though they claim that the Sphinx was a monument highly revered by the ancient Egyptians, they propose that successive pharaohs literally whittled away the head in an effort to bring the original face of the Sphinx closer to a representation of their own face.
		After concluding that the Sphinx was meant to mark Zep Tepi and was positioned in such a manner as to gaze at Leo during the vernal equinox of 10,500 bc, Bauval and Handcock delve into the complicated precessional calculations the form the crux of their argument.
	anth507.tripod.com /messageofthesphinx.htm (1508 words)

	Leo and the Sphinx \| by Eric Francis
		This suggests not only that the Sphinx is older than the adjacent pyramids, but also that it dates to a time when the local climate was entirely different.
		Throughout the world, numerous cultures, from China to ancient Greece to modern France and Germany, adorn their society with lions, which are always a symbol of the strength and power of the empire.
		The card depicts a woman, whose divinity is indicated by an infinity symbol over her head (overtly in the Waite deck, and covertly in older decks as a hat), spreading the jaws of a lion, which is located at the level of her pelvis.
	www.planetwaves.net /contents/leo_and_the_sphinx.html (1370 words)

	Nekhebet.com - Conspiracy Theories Revealed
		The Sphinx is generally accepted to have been built along with the Pyramids of Giza around 2500 BC.
		In addition, the human head of the Sphinx is small in relation to the rest of the body, indicating that the head bearing Pharaoh Khafre's likeness could have been carved out of a larger lion's head.
		Adding to the conspiracies surrounding the age of the Sphinx, writers Graham Hancock and Robert Buvaul provide evidence in their book Message of the Sphinx that the creation of the Sphinx and Pyramids can be pushed back as far as 10,500 BC using astronomical data.
	www.nekhebet.com /m_conspiracies.html (1144 words)

	Redating the Sphinx: The Debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Sphinx is a statue 240 feet long in the form of a recumbent lion with a human head wearing the headdress of the Pharaohs.
		A problem with the age of the Sphinx may be dated to the report of a photogrammetric survey conducted in 1979 by Dr. Mark Lehner, director of the American Research Center in Egypt in the 1980s, and Dr. K.
		Schoch argued that the fissuring visible on the Sphinx and its walls is the kind of weathering produced by rainfall or runoff.
	members.aol.com /davidpb4/sphinx2.html (2101 words)

	World Mysteries - Mystic Places - The Sphinx
		The core blocks of the Sphinx Temple match some of the strata of bedrock in the Sphinx enclosure and show that the Temple was built as the enclosure was being excavated.
		In his 1998 booklet, Dr. Hawass argues that the Sphinx was carved in the rough and that the oldest facing stones of better-quality Tura limestone were applied as part of the original monument and not as later repairs.
		The resemblance between the Sphinx Temple court and the Khafra Mortuary Temple court, and the other arguments for treating the Sphinx as part of the Khafra complex, do not in Schoch's view preclude the possibility of two stages in the construction of the Sphinx, the Sphinx temples, and also the Khafra Mortuary Temple.
	www.world-mysteries.com /mpl_3.htm (7440 words)

	The Sphinx
		It is the inscrutable Sphinx, an ancient statue with the head of a man and the body of a lion.
		Some scientists have examined the Sphinx and came to the conclusion that the statue is suffering from water damage that caused erosion.
		It is believed that the head was altered several times and that the original head might have been that of a lion.
	www.articletrader.com /writing/the-sphinx.html (1286 words)

	Great Sphinx of Giza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Sphinx of Giza is a large half-human, half-lion Sphinx statue in Egypt, on the Giza Plateau at the west bank of the Nile River, near modern-day Cairo (29.975299° N 31.137496° E).
		The headdress (known as the nemes head-cloth), with its fold over the top of the head and its triangular planes behind the ears, the presence of the royal uraeus cobra on the brow, the treatment of the eyes and lips all evidence that the Sphinx was carved during this period.
		Schoch claims the amount of water erosion the Sphinx has experienced indicates a construction date no later than the 6th millennium BC or 5th millennium BC, at least two thousand years before the widely accepted construction date and 1500 years prior to the accepted date for the beginning of Egyptian civilization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Sphinx (2556 words)

	Ooparts & Ancient High Technology--Evidence of Noah's Flood?--Page 17
		Schoch believed that the head, which was too small in proportion to the body, had probably been recarved in historic times from an earlier lion's head.
		Gauri circulated a short paper that attributed the erosion on the Sphinx primarily to geochemical effects associated with either an upward seepage of groundwater or with atmospheric condensation and evaporation, which occurred even in the dry climate of the area.
		There was evidence of condensation damage to the Sphinx and its temples, but such damage was common to all of the structures on the Giza plateau and was in his view the least serious kind of weathering.
	www.s8int.com /page17.html (2218 words)

	NOVA Online/Pyramids/Interview with Mark Lehner
		We have the ruins of the temples attached to the pyramids and the sphinx, of course.
		However, the part of the plateau downslope to the southeast in the direction where we're digging, south of the Wall of the Crow, the stone downslope in that direction was actually formed as the seawaters were retreating, and that nummolite embankment came almost to the surface.
		And the Sphinx is a natural cross section of the natural geology at Giza.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/pyramid/excavation/lehner.html (2212 words)

	Within The Heart of the Sphinx
		Among the hieroglyphic writings in the Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Egypt are to be found prophetic statements that corroborate the prophecies of both famous and unknown seers.
		The conservators of the Sphinx will not succeed with their repairs because when the Hall of Records, which is the famous, mysterious "Secret of the Sphinx" is revealed the Sphinx will not be needed as a reminder on the planet anymore.
		Some intuitives have foreseen the Pyramids and Sphinx actually disappearing, perhaps during a sand storm, but that they will actually be "lifted off with lasers through the various air shafts." This may be quite a stretch for some, and perhaps there is another explanation.
	www.new-visions.com /articles/sphinxheart.html (4508 words)

	Jewish Education at the Lookstein Center - Leadership
		He has conquered the Sphinx, the half-woman, half-beast, who had lured him to adventure, to danger, to relatedness, if only the relatedness of antagonism and glory-seeking.
		Imagine that the Oedipus story is being told from the viewpoint of the Sphinx, Now the Sphinx spends her time asking riddles of people and devouring them when they fail to get the right answer.
		Suddenly he felt a presence at the back of his head, like the eye of a camera, fixed: A giant's voice, like the voice of a frightened but trusting child, asks for water.
	www.lookstein.org /articles/sphinx.htm (4612 words)

	Secret Societies - TinWiki.org
		Secret Societies' are often associated with Conspiracy Theories that involve global domination and the introduction a a NWO.
		Many secret societies will have layers of membership, with a person entering first as a neophyte of some sort, and then advancing through the ranks as he participates more in the organization.
		Society of the Pacifica House (1824) at Brown University
	www.tinwiki.org /wiki/Secret_Societies (593 words)

	The Message of the Sphinx : A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind by Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In The Message of the Sphinx, Robert Bauval, author of The Orion Mystery, and Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods, present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work that unravels the millennial code embodied in these structures.
		Great complications, such as Sphinx symbolism and origin (subject of this book), lead us to recognize that the simplistic, chronological, from savage to civilized status of human society, are not valid and we must think again.
		In The Message of The Sphinx the authors conclude that the Ancient Egyptians were heir to a civilization much greater and older than their own.
	www.newvision-psychic.com /bookshelf/msgsphinx.html (1808 words)

	Greek Sphinx Statue
		540- 530 B.C. This sphinx was a part of a Attic grave monument of the middle archaic period that reflected the opulence of the wealthy class of that time.
		The sphinx was placced atop a tall shaft, decorated with high relief sculpture and crowned by a cavetto capital.
		In Greek myth the sphinx was sent by Hera to punish Thebes for displeasing the Goddess.
	www.aurorahistoryboutique.com /ahb.cfm?a=S000302 (114 words)

	Sphinx
		In ancient Egypt, where the idea originated, the head was usually a portrait of the reigning pharaoh.
		The head and bust were carved from a solid block of rock left in a quarry from which stone was taken for the Great Pyramid.
		Published by the 'Skeptics Society', Skeptic Magazine is devoted to the history of revolutionary science and pseudoscience, presenting articles, interviews, and book reviews that investigate controversial ideas and promote science and critical thinking.
	www.occultopedia.com /s/sphinx.htm (3285 words)

	The Sphinx of Corinth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Greek mythology, the sphinx was a winged creature with the head of a woman and the body of a lion.
		In Egyptian mythology, where the story of the sphinx originated, the creature was male but became female in Near Eastern mythology and then in Greek mythology, although there are a few male sphinxes from the archaic period.
		At first, sphinxes in Greek mythology were portrayed as ghost-like monsters that carried off children and who were present at fatal fights.
	gbgm-umc.org /umw/corinthians/sphinx.stm (467 words)

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