The Sand Covering The Sphinx's Body...

The stone outcropping it was carved from may have been already weathered. I certainly think it’s possible an early civilization did sculpt it. The Göbekli Tepe discovery makes an older Sphinx more plausible since we know elaborate stone carvings were being done In Turkey around 9000BC. 

Maybe the upper layers of bedrock that it was carved from were more durable than the lower layers.  Here's a natural rock formation from Farafra, Egypt.

For god's sake, let the mummies rest in peace. We don't need to dig up their bodies.

As far as the sphinx goes... think Mount Rushmore. it has erosion too but we know for a fact when it was built.

It's not older than some think. Zahi Hawass and the other Egyptologist have this one right.

The great pyramid is a bit of mystery though. We still don't know precisely how it was built. There are several theories but no smoking gun. Plus, no mummy was found when it was discovered. But again, most of the evidence supports that it was the Pharaoh Khufu's burial chamber. So, whatever... I won't spend much time thinking about it. haha.

Sphincter  on the other hand....

Did you know that the Bible never makes reference to the Pyramids. You'd think as much time as the Children of Israel were in Egypt, they would have noticed them. I heard a crackpot theory that when Exodus talks about the Mt Sinai, it is referring to the Great Pyramid. 

The sight in person still stuns us today. The same guy also theorized King Solomon was the pharaoh of the delta area upper Kingdom during his reign and his famous mines were the 19th Dynasty Pharaohs’ Valley of the Kings being raided for their King Tut like treasures as tribute to Solomon/Shishak by the Thebes government to the south. 

Another curiosity in the Bible is no Pharaoh is mentioned by name with the exception of Shishak, who looted Solomon’s Temple. You’d think the Pharaoh Abraham, who let his wife sleep with, twice, and she was his half-sister at that, and Moses, who lived with the Pharaoh as best buddies, would get a passing mention. It’s this guy’s theory these names were censored by later temple priest redactors to establish the Hebrews bona fides as owning Canaan per the God Yahweh and not a bunch of “Egyptian” cousin interlopers. 

Shishak, he claims, was a Hyksos regional king, which at the time would have included much of southern Canaan, before becoming the northern pharaoh, and Solomon, the descendant of the Children of Israel (also Hyksos, kicked out during the Exodus saga) were the same man. So, Pharaoh Shishak and King Solomon are one…so he says. Historically, this Shishak is thought to be Shoshenq I (943–922 BC). 

But there is often a factual origin or basis for the myth. When it’s said Abraham was born in Ur and took his tribe and animals up the Fertile Crescent, down into Canaan and eventually settling in Egypt, that matches with Semitic Hyksos we know from Egyptian historical records “invaded” and otherwise settle into the Nile Delta as farmers and bond servants. It’s possible they were refugees from the Bronze Age climatic collapse. Other peoples sought refuge in Egypt that still had its dependable Nile flooding. Abraham could be a composite character of respected and wise tribal leaders who took his starving people to find food in Egypt. 

We can take all the data we have from the archeological, paleontology, and epigraphy record to build a frame of who and what ancient were like, then fill out what we can with extrapolation using comparative anthropology and biology. And this speculative narrative is always changing as new data is discovered. Even so, the discoveries made lately keep changing it faster. LiDAR technology is uncovering long gone Stone Age settlements around the world.