In the 1990s, Robert Schoch and geophysicist Mohamed Ibrahim surveyed the Great Sphinx using seismic methods and ground-penetrating radar. The work mapped rectilinear subsurface anomalies. Ibrahim argues the geometry may be artificial, but the surveys did not confirm a box-shaped room or void beneath the right paw. The Hall of Records story comes from Edgar Cayce’s 1940s readings, not archaeology.
1990s radar survey mapped anomalies beneath the Sphinx—not a confirmed void
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- Robert Schoch, a Boston University anthropologist, and geophysicist Mohamed Ibrahim conducted seismic and ground-penetrating radar work at the Great Sphinx in the 1990s. Seismic reflection and GPR are distinct techniques.
- The surveys mapped rectilinear subsurface anomalies. They did not confirm a box-shaped room, chamber or void, and the results do not establish a location beneath the right paw.
- Mohamed Ibrahim interprets the geometry as artificial; that is his interpretation, not an established archaeological conclusion.
- Hawass's team drilled at the Sphinx site, but the claim that a borehole was deliberately positioned away from the anomaly is a disputed interpretation by Ibrahim and Matt Lerch.
- The claimed rear, tail and head entrances and the description of a sealed interior with a wooden floor are not established by the cited sources and should be attributed to the video.
- Edgar Cayce—spelled Cayce, not Casey—made the Hall of Records claim in the 1940s, not more than a century ago. It is not archaeological evidence.
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