Robert Schoch says he ran subsurface seismic tests beneath the Sphinx enclosure wall, partly to calibrate his method, and dates the core body to roughly 10,000 BCE — a timing he ties to the close of the last Ice Age. He's quick to flag the weak point: in a 1992 debate, critics asked where the pottery and other traces of a 12,000-year-old advanced civilization would be if the Sphinx were that old. He had no corroborating evidence then; the answer, he says, only arrived years later with Göbekli Tepe. Still a hypothesis worth watching. 🐾🏺
Schoch dates Sphinx core body to ~10,000 BCE with subsurface seismic testing
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Key facts
- Robert Schoch says he carried out subsurface seismic testing under the Sphinx enclosure wall to calibrate his method and date the core body of the Great Sphinx.
- Schoch dates the core body of the Sphinx to approximately 10,000 BCE, a date he links to the end of the last Ice Age.
- The 1992 debate is cited: a critic asked where the pottery shards and other evidence of an advanced civilization 12,000 years old would be if the Sphinx was built by an earlier culture.
- Schoch states he had no such corroborating evidence in 1992 and that the answer came only years later with Göbekli Tepe.
Sources
Robert M. Schoch: Research Highlightsrobertschoch.com
Many people know me best for my work on the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt. The Great Sphinx sits near the Great Pyramid on the western bank of the Nile, outside ...
Sphinx water erosion hypothesisen.wikipedia.org
Schoch argues that the Giza Plateau is "criss crossed with fractures or joints millions of years old" and that "fissures such as those on the Sphinx enclosure ...
Seismic investigations in the vicinity of the great Sphinx ...researchgate.net
The purposes of the investigations were to analyze the depth and distribution of weathering in the exposed limestone bedrock, search for voids/ ...
NOVA Online/Pyramids/Read Others' Responses #2pbs.org
In 1991 a team consisting of geologist Robert Schoch ... survey of the Sphinx using seismic refraction, refraction tomography, and seismic ...
The Sphinx Controversy: Another Look at the Geological ...hallofmaat.com
Dr. Schoch interprets seismic profiles made on all sides of the Sphinx as indicating that a zone of weathered limestone exists below the floor of the enclosure ...
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