Heru-em-akhet which translates to Heru on the Horizon is one of the oldest and greatest monuments in the world. According to anthropologist Robert M. Schoch, the Great Sphinx is much older than the date given by conventional Egyptologists and believe it is at bare minimum 12,000 years old. The face is Africanoid which with strong pragmatism, large full lips and a full nose that has been defaced. Everyone debating the ethnic makeup of the original ancient Egyptians and the strongest evidence is staring them in the face the entire time.
"Among the factors that caused ancient weathering to the Sphinx, only one, rainfall, was greater in these centuries than afterwards. The rains of the interglacial climate transition diminished over the third millennium but were still greater than the rains that have fallen since then. The Sphinx could have eroded in the last half of the third millennium as a result of rains that increased the frequency and severity of exfoliation. Somewhat ironically, a conventional date for the Sphinx thus depends on rainfall as much as the case for an earlier date."
Dominique Vivant Denon - Measurement of the Sphinx of Giza, December 29, 1799:
Vivant Denon drew this image of the Sphinx of Giza around 1798. This image and written account (a part of the collection) is from the 1803 issue of Universal Magazine. From that same magazine, here is the written account in Denon's own words, "...Though its proportions are colossal, the outline is pure and graceful; the expression of the head is mild, gracious, and tranquil; the character is African, but the mouth, and lips of which are thick, has a softness and delicacy of execution truly admirable; it seems real life and flesh. Art must have been at a high pitch when this monument was executed; for, if the head wants what is called style, that is the say, the straight and bold lines which give expression to the figures under which the Greeks have designated their deities, yet sufficient justice has been rendered to the fine simplicity and character of nature which is displayed in this figure..."
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Sphinx May Really Be a Black African, New York Times, 1992:
In "The Case of the Missing Pharaoh," (Op-Ed June 27), John Anthony West shows that the Sphinx does not resemble the Old Kingdom pharaoh Chephren, the traditional attribution.
The analytical techniques he and Detective Frank Domingo used on facial photographs are not unlike methods orthodontists and surgeons use to study facial disfigurements. From the right lateral tracing of the statue's worn profile a pattern of bimaxillary prognathism is clearly detectable. This is an anatomical condition of forward development in both jaws, more frequently found in people of African ancestry than in those from Asian or Indo-European stock. The carving of Chephren in the Cairo Museum has the facial proportions expected of a proto-European.
Thus, the Sphinx is likely a facial representation of a black African. Considering that the peopling of ancient Egypt derived from an ancestral mixture of Africans and Mediterraneans, facial soft-tissue analysis of this fabled man-lion would support a much earlier origin for the Sphinx, when Africans may have dominated the region. SHELDON PECK Newton, Mass., July 3, 1992 The writer is an orthodontist.
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