A Fresh Look At The Great Egyptian Sphynx

One of the greatest archaeological anomalies on Earth is the Egyptian Sphinx. No one really knows who made it or when it was made. This is in spite of the claims of academic scholars. One reason for this is the dispute about its age between Geologists and Egyptologists. Egyptology claims an age of 4500 years old. Geology views things differently.
We will discuss the published research of two scientists from the Ukraine. They are Vjacheslav I. Manichev and Alexander G. Parkhomenko. At the time their article was published, they were associated with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Their paper dates the Sphinx at over 800,000 years old. Let us take a look.
The current historical-archaeological methods used to date the Sphinx by Egyptologists can not be accepted by geology. That is because the Sphinx displays signs of water erosion that can not be explained by the current accepted age 4500 to 5000 years old.
You can not have water erosion of the Sphinx unless it was built at a time when abundant water existed in Egypt. A date of 4500 to 5000 years is too recent a time for Egypt to have had abundant water because it was still a desert. Furthermore, a date of 13000 BC, a time of high humidity and pouring rains in Egypt, is still too recent a date to explain the water erosion found on the Sphinx.
So, how do we date the water erosion? Well, Manichev and Parkhomenko have compared the erosion of the Sphinx with erosion along sea coasts and have discovered a similarity. In fact, geologists who specialize in sea coast geomorphology know this type of erosion as wave-cut hollows. They can be either one story or multi-storied erosion patterns. Wave-cut hollows are found horizontal to surface water and can cause cliffs as found on the Black Sea.
Examination of the Great Egyptian Sphinx demonstrates that this pattern of erosion is found from the head to foot on this structure. This indicates that the Sphinx was at one time submerged. The total height equals 160 meters and lasted for considerable time. The various cut-hollows correspond to varying water levels over time.
But what could have caused the submergence of the Sphinx? The answer seems to be increased water level of the Mediterranean which flooded the Nile Valley. This flooding of the Nile caused long-living water-bodies with a time estimate of 800,000 years. But the Sphinx had to have been built BEFORE this flooding. Therefore, it is possible for the Sphinx to be much older.
With the support of geological research my belief of an extreme old age for ancient Egyptian civilization, 28 million years, becomes a real possibility and not mere conjecture. In any event, the origin and development of civilization on earth must be re-examined and current beliefs changed.
Reference
Vjacheslav I. Manichev and Alexander G. Parkhomenko. 2008. “Geological Aspect Of The Problem Of Dating The Great Egyptian Sphinx Construction” in Geoarchaeology and Archaeomineralogy, Eds. R.I. Kostov, B. Gaydarska, M. Gurova, Sofia.

The Mystery Behind The Guadeloupe Skeleton

The Guadeloupe Woman: Is it a 15th century or 28 Million Year Old Skeleton?

In 1810 the British seized the French Island of Guadeloupe and sent a large stone slab back to England containing a skeleton of a headless and footless woman.  This particular skeleton has become the object of controversy regarding the age of the skeleton and the Creation debate.  We will discuss this skeleton and add to this debate.
We came across this oddity when reading the website Bad Archaelogy.wordpress.com written by Keith Fitzpatrick Matthews, an English archaeologist.  Frankly, his precision and attention to specific detail regarding the skeleton was refreshing even though it demonstrated a traditional and narrow perspective.  We understand that science must be rigorous. We also understand that it is necessary for science to disprove various theories in order to get to an accurate and truthful assessment of any object, artefact, or skeleton.  However, narrowness and rigid adherence to traditional methodologies do not guarantee correctness.  Since science, itself, is an exercise in probabilistic truth; it can’t guarantee certainty.

So, what do we have?  Well, we have a skeleton found in a slab of rock one mile long with an unknown date of origin.  Matthews states that the original investigator declared the stone to be a kind of sandstone made up of a concretion of calcareous sand.  Well, so far so good. Additionally, Matthews tells us that there is a grave yard near the site of the skeleton’s excavation began at the time of Columbus’ discovery of the island in the Caribbean in 1493. Therefore, he believes this skeleton is not of Miocene age, 28 million to 5 million years old, but of a recent date, possibly in the 15^th century.
Now, this skeleton may indeed be a 15^th century skeleton.  However, it is not proven to be so.  It still could be of a much older age even of 28 million years old.  This skeleton’s age may not be “discredited” at all because of the probabilistic nature of science and the fact that a modern age has not been proven either.  To properly determine its age one would have to examine the geology of the matrix surrounding the skeleton, examine the skeleton, itself, and properly study the geology of the island of Guadeloupe.  To the best my knowledge, none of these things have been done.  So, there is a real lack of evidence on the side of traditional “mainline” archaeology to support a claim of a recent, 15^th century, age for this skeleton.
Now, can we find any other evidence to support a claim of an older age?  Yes!  First, the skeleton was imbedded in rock.  This is a process that takes some time.  Second, we can consider a new technique, one that I have pioneered, that is the use of plate tectonics – the movement of the continental plates.
If we do this we arrive at an unexpected surprise.  Guadeloupe, as with all the islands of the West Indies rest on the Caribbean plate and neither on the North America nor South American plates.  This means if we extend the location of Guadeloupe backward in time we find that at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, it was located south to southwest of the Yucatan.  With the meteorite impact that killed the dinosaurs, a huge tidal wave of 1100 feet in height flooded all of Mexico and the surrounding area and could have carried bodies of individuals to Guadeloupe.  A closer look at the eastern side of the island shows an indentation that could have been caused by this tidal wave. Of course additional geological research is needed to confirm this.
So, we claim that the skeleton has not been discredited until further research is done.  Furthermore, the fact of the Caribbean plate movements due place Guadeloupe much closer to the Yucatan opens the door to the possibility that the skeleton maybe not 28 million years old but 66 million years old.  The question is still open.