Each civilization has its own symbols that are considered the inalienable parts of the people, its culture and history. The Sphinx of ancient Egypt is the immortal proof of the power, the strength and grandeur of the country, a dumb reminder of the divine origin of his rulers who have rushing in the century, but left the image of eternal life on Earth. The national symbol of Egypt is considered one of the greatest architectural monuments of the past, still leading the invalid fear of its impressiveness, halo of secrets, mystical legends and age-old history.
Monument in numbers
Sphinx Egyptian is known to everyone and every resident on Earth. The monument is cut down from the monolithic rock, has the body of a lion and the human head (according to some sources - Pharaoh). The length of the statue is 73 m, the height is 20 meters. The symbol of the power of the royal power is located on the Plateau Giza of the West Coast of the Nile River and is surrounded by a wide and fairly deep moat. The deep sphinx look forward to the East, towards the point of heaven, where the sun rises. The monument was under the cover of the sand many times and was renovated more than once. The statue was completely cleaned from the sand only in 1925, having struck the imagination of the inhabitants of the planet with their scale and sizes.
Story of Study: Facts against Legends
In Egypt, the Sphinx is considered the most mysterious and mystical monument. His story for many years causes a rustling interest and special attention of historians, writers, directories and researchers. Everyone who happened to touch eternity, which the statue personifies, offers its version of its origin. Locals call the stone attraction "Father of Horror" due to the fact that the Sphinx is a keeper of many mysterious legends and a favorite tourist destination - fans of mysteries and fiction. According to researchers, the history of the Sphinx has more than 13th centuries. Presumably, it was built in order to fix the astronomical phenomenon - the reunification of the three planets.
Myth about origin
Until now, there is no reliable information about what symbolizes this sculpture, for which it was built and when. The lack of history is replaced by the legends that are transmitted from the mouth to the mouth and told tourists. The fact that in Egypt Sphinx is the most ancient and largest monument, creates mysterious and ridiculous stories about him. There is a suggestion that the statue protects the tombstones of the greatest pharaohs - the pyramids of Heops, Mikherina and Heffren. Another legend says that stone sculpture symbolizes the Pharaoh Hefren's personality, the third is that this is a statue of God Mount (the god of the sky, receiving, half-clock), observing the ascent of his father - God of the Sun of RA.
Legends
In ancient Greek mythology, the Sphinx is mentioned as an ugly monster. According to the Greeks, the legends of the ancient Egypt about this monster sounds like this: a creature with a body of a lion and a man gave rise to Echidne and Typhon (female half and a giant with hundreds of dragon heads). It had face and breasts of women, body lion and bird wings. The monster dwells not far from FIV, slept people and asked them a strange question: "Which living beings in the morning moves on four legs, day on two, and in the evening on three?" None of the wanderers who trembled from fear could not give the sphinx of an intelligible response. After that, the monster sentenced them to death. However, the day came when the wise Oedip was able to solve his riddle. "This is a person in childhood, maturity and old age," he replied. After that, the crushed monster rushed from the top of the mountain and crashed about the rock.
According to the second version of the legend, in Egypt Sphinx was once God. One day, the Heavenly Ruler fell into the cunning trap of the sands, called the "forgetting cell", and fell asleep in her eternal sleep.
Real facts
Despite the mysterious subtext legends, a real story is not less than mystricted and mysterious. According to the initial opinion of scientists, the Sphinx was built at one time with the pyramids. However, in the ancient papyrus, of which information was drawn about the development of the pyramids, there is not a single mention of the stone sculpture. Known names of architects, builders who created grand grafflies for pharaohs, but the name of the person who gave the world of Sphinx Egyptian, still remains unknown.
True, in a few centuries after the creation of the pyramids, the first facts about the statue arise. The Egyptians are called her "Shepes Anh" - "Live Image". More information and scientific explanation of these words to the world could not give peace. But at the same time, the cult image of a mysterious Sphinx - the winged masturbation of the monster is mentioned in Greek mythology, numerous fairy tales and legends. The hero of these legends, depending on the author, periodically changes his appearance, speaking in some versions given a half-half, and in the other - a winged lioness.
History of ancient Egypt about Sphinx
Another puzzle for scientists was the chronicle of Herodotus, which in 445 BC. Described in the smallest detail process of building a pyramid. He told the world interesting stories about how the structures were erected, for what time and how many slaves were involved in their construction. The story of the "Father of History" was touched by even such nuances as the nutrition of slaves. But, oddly enough, Herodotus, never mentioned a stone Sphinx in his work. None of the subsequent records of the construction of the monument was also found.
Help shed a scientist light on the Sphinx mystery of the work of the Roman writer Pliny Senior "Natural History". In his records, he tells about the next cleansing of the monument from the sand. Based on this, it becomes clear why Herodotus did not leave the world a description of the Sphinx - the monument at that time was buried under the layer of sandy nanos. So how many times did he find himself in the sand trap?
First Restoration
Judging by the inscription left on the stone stele between the colors of the mounds, Pharaoh Tutamos I spent the year for the liberation of the monument. Ancient letters tell about the fact that, being a prince, the tupes snapped with a strong sleep at the foot of the sphinx and saw a dream in which God Harmakis appeared. He predicted the prince ascent to the throne of Egypt and ordered to free the sculpture from the sandy trap. After some time, the Tutmos was safely became Pharaoh and remembered the promise to this Divine. He ordered not only to dig the giant, but also renovating it. Thus, the first revival of the Legend of Egypt occurred in the XV century. BC. It was then that the world found out about the Grand Construction and a unique cultone monument of Egypt.
It is known for certain that after the revival of Sphinx by Pharaon, it once again pulled him out when the ptolomeyev dynasty is reigning, in the Roman emperors who seized the ancient Egypt, and the Arab rulers. In our time, he was again liberated from the sands in 1925. To this afternoon, the statue has to be cleaned after sandy storms, as it is an important tourist object.
Why does the monument have no nose?
Despite the antiquity of the sculpture, it is practically preserved in the original form embodulating the Sphinx. Egypt (photo of the monument is presented above) managed to preserve his architectural masterpiece, but failed to protect it from the barbarism of people. The sculpture has no nose at the moment. Scientists suggest that one of the pharaohs on an unknown science, the reason ordered to beat off the nose in the statue. According to other sources, the monument damaged Napoleon's army, shelled his face from the gun. The British are bored by the beard of the mounds and crossed it into their museum.
However, in the newly discovered records of the historian Al-Macrisi from 1378, it is said that the stone sculpture has no longer had a nose. According to him, one of the Arabs, wanting to redeem religious sins (the image of human faces was prohibited in the Quran), the nose of the giant was broken. In response to such atrocities and abuse of Sphinx, the sands began to take revenge on people, advancing the earth Giza.
As a result, scientists came to the conclusion that the Sphinx was lost in Egypt as a result of strong winds and floods. Although this assumption has not yet found real confirmation.
Stunning secrets of Sphinx
In 1988, as a result of the impact of the caustic factory smoke, a decent part of the stone block (350 kg) broke off from the monument. UNESCO, concerned with the appearance and condition of the tourist and cultural facility, resumed repairs, thereby discovering the road to new research. As a result of a thorough study of the stone blocks of the pyramid of Heops and Sphinx, the hypothesis was put forward by the Japanese archaeologists that the monument was built much earlier than the Great Tomb of Pharaoh. The conclusion became a stunning discovery for historians who assumed that the pyramid, Sphinx and other funeral structures are contemporaries. A second, no less awesome discovery, was the long narrow tunnel, connected to the peyramid of Heops, discovered under the left pavement.
After the Japanese archaeologists, hydrologists were engaged in the ancient monument. They found on his body traces of erosion from a large water stream, which moved from north to south. After a number of studies, hydrologists came to the conclusion that the stone lion was a silent witness to the spill of the Nile - the biblical catastrophe, which occurred about 8-12 thousand years ago. The American researcher John Anthony West explained traces of water erosion on the body of Leo and their absence on the head proof that the Sphinx existed during the time of the ice age and dates back to any period of up to 15 thousand to n. e. According to French archaeologists, the history of ancient Egypt may boast an ancient monument that existed even during the death of Atlantis.
Thus, stone sculpture tells us about the existence of the greatest civilization, which was able to erect such a majestic structure that became an immortal manner of the past.
The worship of the ancient Egyptians in front of the Sphinx
The pharaohs of Egypt regularly made pilgrimage to the foot of the giant, who symbolized the great past of their country. They brought victims to the altar, which was among his paws, weed incense, receiving a silent blessing from the giant to the kingdom and throne. The Sphinx was for them not only the embodiment of the God of the Sun, but also a sacred way, who gave them the hereditary and legitimate power from the ancestors. He personified a powerful Egypt, the history of the country was reflected in his majestic form, embodying each image of the new pharaoh and turning modernity into the component of eternity. Ancient letters glorified the sphinx as a great God-Creator. His image reunited past, present and future.
Astronomical explanation of stone sculpture
According to the official version, the Sphinx would be built in 2500 BC. e. By order of Pharaoh Hefren during the reign of the fourth ruling pharaoh dynasty. The huge lion is located among other majestic structures on the stone plateau Giza - three pyramids. Astronomical studies have shown that the location of the statue is not chosen in the blind key, but according to the intersection point of the heavenly luminaries. He served an equatorial point indicating the exact location on the horizon of the Sunrise Place on the Spring Equinoxy Day. According to the opinion of astronomers, the Sphinx was built 10.5 thousand years ago.
It is noteworthy that the pyramids of Giza are located on Earth in exactly the same manner as the three stars of Orion belt at the sky that year. According to legend, the Sphinx and Pyramids recorded the position of the stars, the astronomical time, which the ancient Egyptians called the first. Since the heavenly personification of God Osiris, who ruled at that time, was Orion, the manual structures were built with the aim of the image of the stars of his belt, in order to perpetuate and fix the time of their power.
Great Sphinx as a tourist object
Currently, a giant lion with a head of a person attracts millions of tourists who thirs to see the legendary, shrouded in the darkness of centuries-old history and a multitude of mystical legends stone sculpture. The interest in it of all mankind is due to the fact that the secret of creating a statue and remained unscrewd, buried under the sands. It is difficult to imagine how much secrets keeps the Sphinx. Egypt (photo of the monument and pyramids can be seen on any tourist portal) can be proud of its great history, outstanding people, grand monuments, the truth about which their creators took with them to the kingdom of Anubis - God of death. Great and impressive huge stone Sphinx, the story of which remained unsolved and complete secrets. Everything is also directed a calm look of the sculpture of the distance and everything is also unperturbed his appearance. How many of the centuries is he a silent witness of human suffering, the vanity of rulers, the sorrows and misfortunes, comprehended by the Egyptian land? How long does the Great Sphinx keep in themselves? Unfortunately, all of these questions for many years have not found answers.
What sfinx sick?
Arabic wise people affected by the magnificent Sphinx said that the giant was not limited to the time. But over the past millennia, the monument is pretty, and, first of all, the person is to blame.
At first, Mamli practiced in the accuracy of the Sphinx shooting, their coin supported Napoleonic soldiers. One of the rulers of Egypt ordered the nose sculpture, and the British stole a stone beard from gigid and taken to the British Museum.
In 1988, a huge stone block fell from the Sphinx and the crash fell. She was weighed and horrified - 350 kg. This fact caused the most serious concern of UNESCO. It was decided to collect a consultation of representatives of various specialties to find out the reasons for destroying the ancient construction.
As a result of a comprehensive examination, scientists have discovered hidden and extremely dangerous cracks in the Sphinx head, apart from this, they are also dangerous exterior cracks extinguished by poor quality cement - it creates a threat to fast erosion. Sphinx paws were in no less depressing condition.
According to experts, the Sphinx, first of all, harms human life: in the pores of the statue penetrate the exhaust gases of automotive engines and the caustic smoke of the Cairo plants, which gradually destroys it. Scientists say that the Sphinx is seriously ill.
For the restoration of the ancient monument, hundreds of millions of dollars are needed. There are no such money. In the meantime, the Egyptian authorities restore the sculpture on their own.
Mother of fear
Egyptian archaeologist Rudwan Ash-Shamaa believes that Sphinx has a female couple and it hides under the thick sand. A large sphinx is often called the "father of fear". According to the archaeologist, if there is a "father of fear", then there should be a "mother of fear".
In his arguments, Ash-Shamaa relies on the way of thinking of the ancient Egyptians, which firmly followed the principle of symmetry. In his opinion, the lonely figure of the sphinx looks very strange.
The surface of the place where, on the assumption of a scientist, the second sculpture should be, towers over the Sphinx for several meters. "It is logical to assume that the statue is simply hidden from our eyes under the thickness of the sand," the Ash Shamaa is convinced.
In support of its theory, the archaeologist cites several arguments. Ash-Shamaa reminds that the granite stele is located between the front paws of the Sphinx, on which two statues are depicted; There is also a limestone plate, which says that in one of the statues, lightning struck and destroyed it.
Chamber of Secrets.
In one of the ancient Egyptian treatises on behalf of the Goddess Isisi, it is reported that God placed in the secret place "Sacred Books", which contains the "Secrets of Osiris", and then brought the place to this place, so that knowledge remains "unopened as long as The sky will not give birth to creatures that will be worthy of this gift. "
Some researchers and today are confident in the existence of a "secret room". They remember how Edgar Casey predicted that once in Egypt under the right paw of the Sphinx, a room was found, called the "Halp" or the "elevation hall". The information preserved in the "Secret Room" will guide humanity about the highly developed civilization that existed millions of years ago.
In 1989, a group of Japanese scientists by the radar method found a narrow tunnel under the left panel of the Sphinx, which goes towards the pyramid of Hefren, and the north-west of the Tsaritsa chamber was found impressive cavity. However, the Egyptian authorities did not allow the Japanese to conduct a more detailed study of the underground premises.
Studies of American Geophysics of Thomas Dobetski showed that under the sphinx paws there is a large rectangular camera. But in 1993, his work suddenly suspended local authorities. Since that time, the Egyptian government officially prohibits geological or seismological studies around the Sphinx.
Older than civilization
First, in 1991, a professor of geology from Boston conducted an analysis of the erosion of the Sphinx surface and concluded that the age of the Sphynx should be at least 9500 thousand years, that is, the Sphynx at least 5,000 years older than considered scientists! Secondly, Robert Bewwell, using modern computer modeling technologies, discovered that about 12,500 years ago (11th century BC), early in the morning, clearly visible to climb the constellation of the lion right above the place where the Sphinx was built. He logically suggested that the Sphinx, which very much reminds Lion, and was built on this place as a symbol of this event. Well, the third nail into the coffin of the views of official science scored a policeman Frank Domingo, who painted photorobot. He stated that the Sphinx had nothing to do with Pharaoh Hefren. So now it was possible to boldly say that the Sphinx was built long before any known science of civilization.
Huge voids under Sphinx
Of course, all these discoveries and statements could be hidden under the thick layer of dust of scientific offices, but as Japanese researchers came to Egypt. It was 1989, then a group of Vozhad scientists led by Professor Sakuji Jošimura, using modern electromagnetic radar devices, discovered tunnels and rooms right under the Sphinx. Immediately after their find, the Egyptian authorities intervened in the study, and the Joyshimura group was deported to Egypt for life. This opening in the same year repeated Thomas Dobets - American Geophysic. True, he managed to investigate only a small zone under the right paw of the Sphinx, after which he was also promptly expelled from Egypt.
Three very strange events
In 1993, in a small tunnel (20x20 cm), which went from the funeral chamber of the Heops pyramid, was sent a robot that found a wooden door with brass handles inside this very tunnel with brass handles into which and safely rested. Further, 10 years scientists developed a new robot, in order to open the door. And in 2003 they launched it in the same tunnel. It must be admitted that he was safely discovered by the door, and behind it, already a narrow tunnel, began to narrow even more. The robot could not drive on, and in the distance I saw another door. The new robot, with the aim of opening the second "damper," was launched in 2013. After that, tourist access to the pyramids was finally closed, and all the research results were classified. Since then, there are no official news.
Secret city
But there are many unofficial, one of which is actively lobbyted and promoted by the American Casey Foundation (of the one, by the way, who allegedly predicted the find of some secret room under Sphinx). According to their version, in 2013, for the second door of the tunnel, they drove, after which a stone slab with hieroglyphs rose from the ground between the front paws, which were narrated by a sphinx room and a certain certificate hall. As a result of excavations, the Egyptians fell into this very first room, which turned out to be a kind of hallway. From it, researchers went down to the tier below and found themselves in the round room from which three tunnels went to the Great Pyramid. But further go very strange. Allegedly, in one of the tunnels, the energy field was blocked, removed which was able to three some great human. After that, a 12-storey building, leaving underground, was discovered. The dimensions of this structure are truly ambitious and rather resemble the city than the building - 10 kilometers wide and 13 km long. In addition, the Casey Foundation declares the hiring of the Egyptians of a certain rod of the Tota - the archaeological artifact of world importance, which allegedly has the power of technology, unknown to humanity.
More questions than answers
Of course, at a glance, the theory of followers of Casey seems to be complete in half. And everything would be so if the Egyptian government did not partially confirmed the find of a certain underground city. It is clear that information from the official authorities did not receive information about some energy power fields. Also, the Egyptian authorities did not recognize the fact that they were in the city, therefore, it was also not known to be found there. But the fact of recognition of the founding of the underground city remains. So the Sphinx makes it a new riddle to people, but we can only make every effort to solve it.
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One of the most ancient global sculptures, no doubt, can be called the statue of the Sphinx. In addition, it is also one of the most mysterious sculptures, because the mystery of the sphinx is still not fully solved. Sphinx is a creature with a female head, legs and a lion body, an eagle wings and a tail of a bull. One of the largest images of the Sphinx is located on the West Bank Nile, next to the Egyptian pyramids in Giza.
Almost everything that is connected with the Egyptian Sphinx, it is disputes from scientists. Until now, an accurate date of origin of this sculpture is still unknown and completely incomprehensible why the statue has no nose.
The statue made from the limestone rock looks monumentally and majestically. It is worth noting its impressive dimensions: length - 73 meters, height - 20 meters. Sphinx looks at the Nile and the rising sun.
Almost everything that is associated with the Sphinx, causes controversy from scientists. Until now, an accurate date of origin of this sculpture is still unknown and completely incomprehensible why the statue has no nose. Unknown and the meaning of the word: translated from the Greek "Sphinx" means "slicer", but that the ancient Egyptians in this name are invested, remains a mystery.
The Egyptian Pharaohs were made to depict in the form of a formidable lion, which will not spare any enemy. That is why it is believed that the Sphinx guards the peace of the buried pharaohs. The author of the sculpture is unknown, but many researchers believe that this is Hefren. True, this judgment is very controversial. Supporters of the theory refer to the fact that the stones of the sculpture and the chaff pyramids are the same in size. In addition, an image of this pharaoh was found not far from the statue.
Interestingly, the Sphinx has no nose. Of course, once this item existed, but the cause of its disappearance is still unknown. Perhaps the nose was lost during the battle of Napoleon's troops with Turks in the Pyramid in 1798. But, if you believe the Danish traveler Nordenu, the Sphinx looked like this in 1737. There is a version that in the 14th century some religious fanatkin dismissed the sculpture to execute the covenant of Mohammed about the ban on the image of a human face.
Sphinx does not only have a nose, but also an overhead ceremonial beard. Her story also causes controversy scientists. Some believe that the beard was manufactured much later than the sculpture itself. Others believe that the beard was made at one time with his head and that the ancient Egyptians simply did not have technical capabilities for the subsequent installation of details.
The destruction of the sculpture and its subsequent restoration helped scientists find interesting facts. So, for example, Japanese archaeologists concluded that the Sphinx was built before the pyramids. In addition, they found a tunnel statue under the left paw statue, going towards the pyramid of Hefren. Interestingly, the Soviet researchers mentioned this tunnel for the first time.
For a long time, the mysterious sculpture was under the thick layer of sand. The first attempts to dig off the Sphinx were taken in the antiquity of Tathmos IV and Ramses II. True, they have not achieved special success. Only in 1817, the Sphince was liberated chest, and already more than 100 years later, the statue was completely excavated.
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Sphinx is the most mysterious and inexplicable business card of Egypt. Thousands of travelers annually visit Egypt only in order to see this colossal thousand-year monument to with their own eyes. Located on the West Bank of the Royal Nile in the old town of Giza, a large Sphinx still remains the most mysterious and mysterious sculpture, which is composed of many legends and legends.
To this afternoon, it is not for example, in which year it began to build this huge monument with a figure of a lion and a human face. It is also known to be unknown, as in ancient Egypt, this sculpture was called. The word Sphinx is a Greek, literal translation - "scenario". In Arabic, the Sphinx means "the progenitor or the father of horror". This strange name also gave rise to many legends and assumptions. In large sphinx guards the Pyramids of Pharaohs, and as scientists suggest, the sculpture is designed to bring horror and scare the tombs.
The big sculpture guards the entrance to the funeral pyramids of Mencar Pharaohs, and Hafra. The face carved from limestone, according to the legends belongs to Pharaoh Hafra. Another legend states that the Sphinx is the god of the mountains, which daily welcomes in the sky of his father, the God of the Sun of the Republic of Armenia.
The ancient Greeks believed that the Sphinx was a terrible and bloodthirsty monster, designed to protect the pyramids from the invasion of strangers. It is also assumed that inside a huge hollow Sphinx more than 10 thousand years ago, mass sacrifices were held in honor of the gods. And it is these bloody rituals that allowed the Sphinx father of horror.
HISTORY OF BIG Sphinx
A large sefnox, having a height of more than 20 meters, width over 15 and the length of more than 70, carved from the monolithic rock. This method of creating a sculpture prevents scientists to accurately determine the construction time of the Sphinx. Corrosion from groundwater, discovered on the inner walls of the sculpture, helped determine the approximate age of the ancient monument - 10-13 thousand years. Egyptologists suggest that the Sphinx elevated a fully disappeared civilization, which resides in ancient Egypt, tens of thousands of years ago. Other traces of this civilization are hidden by the Mediterranean Sea after another glacial period that has completely changed the climate of modern Egypt.
Throughout its existence, the Sphinx has not been completely buried under the sand layers. Many Pharaohs tried to clean the sculpture. Thenum fourth was able to partially release the monument from the sand, talking to the huge paws of the statue. There was a stele between the paws, on which the words were carved that the cleaning of the Sphinx from the sand was the request of the RA god, who walked the Pharaoh a happy and long board.
Over the years, the Sphinx has repeatedly restored and strengthened with stone blocks. The face of the statue is very damaged, there is no nose and beard. There are several opinions about who caused damage. First of all, it is wind and sandy storms that eventually destroyed the stone. Deep chips and sculptures on the sculpture and the lack of the nose are attributed to the cannon shocks, which were applied by Mamelyukov during the war of the Turks with the Napoleonic army.
Another legend says that in the 12th century, the face of the statue damaged the Sufi fanatkin, which in the gust of anger ripped a crowd. At that time, the Sphinx for the locals was idol, the king of the Nile, the worship of which promised the inhabitants of the harvest, wealth and fertility.
Last large-scale work on the excavation of a huge statue dated to the 20th century. It was in 1925 that the sculpture was completely liberated from the thickness of the sand. In 2014, a large Sphinx was once again renovated and open to visit tourists. Now the huge guard of the pyramids can be viewed at close range.
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Sphinxes in the history of Egypt
Sphinx alley connects the Luxor Temple with Karnaki. Alley is a wide road from limestone, on the sides of which are the eternal guards - sculptures with a body of a lion and a person. Each sculpture is located on a low granite pedestal. After the restoration of the monuments, the sphinx alley has original lighting, which turns the road to an unusual and mysterious place.
Not so long ago, in 2010, during the excavations in the Luxor temple, another sefnox alley leading to the Nile was found. Scientists found out that on this road to the river was made a sacred boat with various religious holidays.
Cairo or Egyptian Museum
In a huge building, located in the center of Cairo, you can find many values \u200b\u200band old artifacts extracted during the excavations of the graves and necropolias with the burials of Pharaoh. It is in this museum that you can find a large collection of different sphinxes that were transported from various historical sites of Egypt. Even before entering the building of the museum there is an eternal guardian - well-preserved sculpture of the sphinx.
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According to many studies, the Egyptian Sphinx hides even more mysteries than great pyramids. No one reliably knows when and for what purposes this giant sculpture was built ...
Disappearing Sphinx
It is believed that the Sphinx was erected during the construction of Hefren's pyramid. However, in ancient papyrus, related to the construction of great pyramids there are no mentions. Moreover, we know that the ancient Egyptians met all the costs associated with the construction of cult facilities, but economic documents relating to the construction of the Sphinx and not found.
In the V century BC e. Pyramids Giza visited Herodotus, which in detail described all the details of their construction. He recorded "All that saw and heard in Egypt," but the Sphinx did not mention a word.
Before Herodotus in Egypt visited Pekatay Miretsky, after him - Strabo. Their records are thorough, but there are no mentions about the Sphinx. Could the Greeks not notice a sculpture of 20 meters high and 57 meters wide?
The answer to this riddle can be found in the labor of the Roman Naturalist Parley of the Senior "Natural History", which mentions that in his time (I cent. E.) Sphinx once again cleaned from the sands deposited from the western part of the desert. And indeed, the sphinx regularly "released" from sandy nanos up to the 20th century.
Ancient pyramids
Restoration works that began to be conducted in connection with the emergency state of the Sphinx began to bring scientists to the idea that the Sphinx is possible ancient than previously thought.
To test this, Japanese archaeologists led by Professor Sakuji Iochashura with the help of an echolocator first enlightened the pyramid of Heops, and then similarly examined the sculpture. Their conclusion struck - the stones of the sphinx ancient than the pyramid. It was not about the age of the breed itself, but about the time of its processing.
Later, the Japanese changed the team of hydrolyts - their conclusions were also a sensation. On sculpture, they found traces of erosion caused by large streams of water. The first assumption that appeared in the press - the Nile channel in antiquity was in another place and washed the rock from which the sphinx was supplied.
Guessing of hydrolyts still bolder: "Erosion is rather traces of Nile, and the flood is a mighty fluid spill." Scientists concluded that the flow of water was walking from north to south, and the approximate date of the catastrophe was 8 thousand years before. e.
British scientists, repeating the hydrological studies of the rock, from which the Sphinx is made, pushed the date of the flood to 12 thousand years before. e. This generally consistent with the dating of a worldwide flood, which, according to most scientists, occurred about 8-10 thousand BC. e.
What sfinx sick?
Arabic wise people affected by the magnificent Sphinx said that the giant was not limited to the time. But over the past millennia, the monument is pretty, and, first of all, the person is to blame.
At first, Mamli practiced in the accuracy of the Sphinx shooting, their coin supported Napoleonic soldiers. One of the rulers of Egypt ordered the nose sculpture, and the British stole a stone beard from gigid and taken to the British Museum.
In 1988, a huge stone block fell from the Sphinx and the crash fell. She was weighed and horrified - 350 kg. This fact caused the most serious concern of UNESCO. It was decided to collect a consultation of representatives of various specialties to find out the reasons for destroying the ancient construction.
As a result of a comprehensive examination, scientists have discovered hidden and extremely dangerous cracks in the Sphinx head, apart from this, they are also dangerous exterior cracks extinguished by poor quality cement - it creates a threat to fast erosion. Sphinx paws were in no less depressing condition.
According to experts, the Sphinx, first of all, harms human life: in the pores of the statue penetrate the exhaust gases of automotive engines and the caustic smoke of the Cairo plants, which gradually destroys it. Scientists say that the Sphinx is seriously ill.
For the restoration of the ancient monument, hundreds of millions of dollars are needed. There are no such money. In the meantime, the Egyptian authorities restore the sculpture on their own.
Mysterious face
Among the majority of the Egyptologists there is a firm conviction that the face of the pharaoh of the IV Dynasty of Hefren is captured in the appearance of the Sphinx. This confidence can not be shaken - neither the lack of any evidence of the connection of the sculpture and pharaoh, nor the fact that the head of the sphinx was repeatedly reworked.
In the face of Sphinx, Pharaoh Hefren himself is convinced by the famous monument specialist Giza Dr. I. Edwards. "Although the face of the Sphinx is somewhat mutilated, it still gives us a portrait of Heffren himself," the scientist concludes
Interestingly, the body of Heffren himself was not found, and therefore, to compare the sphinx and pharaoh, they use the statues. First of all, we are talking about sculpture carved from black diorita, which is kept in the Cairo Museum - it is according to it that the appearance of the Sphinx.
To confirm or refute the Identification of Sphynx with Hefren, a group of independent researchers has connected to the case of the famous New York Police Frank Domingo, who created portraits for identifying suspects.
After a few months, Domingo concluded: "These two works of art depict two different persons. Frontal proportions - and in particular corners and facial protrusions with a side review - convince me that the Sphinx is not Hefren. "
Mother of fear
Egyptian archaeologist Rudwan Ash-Shamaa believes that Sphinx has a female couple and it hides under the thick sand. A large sphinx is often called the "father of fear". According to the archaeologist, if there is a "father of fear", then there should be a "mother of fear".
In his arguments, Ash-Shamaa relies on the way of thinking of the ancient Egyptians, which firmly followed the principle of symmetry. In his opinion, the lonely figure of the sphinx looks very strange.
The surface of the place where, on the assumption of a scientist, the second sculpture should be, towers over the Sphinx for several meters. "It is logical to assume that the statue is simply hidden from our eyes under the thickness of the sand," the Ash Shamaa is convinced.
In support of its theory, the archaeologist cites several arguments. Ash-Shamaa reminds that the granite stele is located between the front paws of the Sphinx, on which two statues are depicted; There is also a limestone plate, which says that in one of the statues, lightning struck and destroyed it.
Chamber of Secrets
In one of the ancient Egyptian treatises on behalf of the Goddess Isisi, it is reported that God placed in the secret place "Sacred Books", which contains the "Secrets of Osiris", and then brought the place to this place, so that knowledge remains "unopened as long as The sky will not give birth to creatures that will be worthy of this gift. "
Some researchers and today are confident in the existence of a "secret room". They remember how Edgar Casey predicted that once in Egypt under the right paw of the Sphinx, a room was found, called the "Halp" or the "elevation hall". The information preserved in the "Secret Room" will guide humanity about the highly developed civilization that existed millions of years ago.
In 1989, a group of Japanese scientists by the radar method found a narrow tunnel under the left panel of the Sphinx, which goes towards the pyramid of Hefren, and the north-west of the Tsaritsa chamber was found impressive cavity. However, the Egyptian authorities did not allow the Japanese to conduct a more detailed study of the underground premises.
Studies of American Geophysics of Thomas Dobetski showed that under the sphinx paws there is a large rectangular camera. But in 1993, his work suddenly suspended local authorities. Since that time, the Egyptian government officially prohibits geological or seismological studies around the Sphinx.
Egyptian Sphinx hides a lot of secrets and mysteries, no one relifically knows when and for what purpose this gigantic sculpture was built.
Disappearing Sphinx
It is believed that the Sphinx was erected during the construction of Hefren's pyramid. However, in ancient papyrus, related to the construction of great pyramids there are no mentions. Moreover, we know that the ancient Egyptians met all the costs associated with the construction of cult facilities, but economic documents relating to the construction of the Sphinx and not found. In the V century BC e. Pyramids Giza visited Herodotus, which in detail described all the details of their construction.
He recorded "All that saw and heard in Egypt," but the Sphinx did not mention a word. Before Herodotus in Egypt visited Pekatay Miretsky, after him - Strabo. Their records are thorough, but there are no mentions about the Sphinx. Could the Greeks not notice a sculpture of 20 meters high and 57 meters wide? The answer to this riddle can be found in the labor of the Roman Naturalist Parley of the Senior "Natural History", which mentions that in his time (I cent. E.) Sphinx once again cleaned from the sands deposited from the western part of the desert. And indeed, the sphinx regularly "released" from sandy nanos up to the 20th century.
Ancient pyramids
Restoration works that began to be conducted in connection with the emergency state of the Sphinx began to bring scientists to the idea that the Sphinx is possible ancient than previously thought. To test this, Japanese archaeologists led by Professor Sakuji Iochashura with the help of an echolocator first enlightened the pyramid of Heops, and then similarly examined the sculpture. Their conclusion struck - the stones of the sphinx ancient than the pyramid. It was not about the age of the breed itself, but about the time of its processing.
Later, the Japanese changed the team of hydrolyts - their conclusions were also a sensation. On sculpture, they found traces of erosion caused by large streams of water. The first assumption that appeared in the press - the Nile channel in antiquity was in another place and washed the rock from which the sphinx was supplied.
Guessing of hydrolyts still bolder: "Erosion is rather traces of Nile, and the flood is a mighty fluid spill." Scientists concluded that the flow of water was walking from north to south, and the approximate date of the catastrophe was 8 thousand years before. e. British scientists, repeating the hydrological studies of the rock, from which the Sphinx is made, pushed the date of the flood to 12 thousand years before. e. This generally consistent with the dating of a worldwide flood, which, according to most scientists, occurred about 8-10 thousand BC. e.
What sfinx sick?
Arabic wise people affected by the magnificent Sphinx said that the giant was not limited to the time. But over the past millennia, the monument is pretty, and, first of all, the person is to blame. At first, Mamli practiced in the accuracy of the Sphinx shooting, their coin supported Napoleonic soldiers.
One of the rulers of Egypt ordered the nose sculpture, and the British stole a stone beard from gigid and taken to the British Museum. In 1988, a huge stone block fell from the Sphinx and the crash fell. She was weighed and horrified - 350 kg. This fact caused the most serious concern of UNESCO.
It was decided to collect a consultation of representatives of various specialties to find out the reasons for destroying the ancient construction. In the result of a comprehensive examination, scientists have found hidden and extremely dangerous cracks in the head of the Sphynx, in addition they established that external cracks are also dangerous, it creates a threat to rapid erosion. Sphinx paws were in no less depressing condition.
According to experts, the Sphinx, first of all, harms human life: in the pores of the statue penetrate the exhaust gases of automotive engines and the caustic smoke of the Cairo plants, which gradually destroys it. Scientists say that the Sphinx is seriously ill. For the restoration of the ancient monument, hundreds of millions of dollars are needed. There are no such money. In the meantime, the Egyptian authorities restore the sculpture on their own.
Mysterious face
Among the majority of the Egyptologists there is a firm conviction that the face of the pharaoh of the IV Dynasty of Hefren is captured in the appearance of the Sphinx. This confidence can not be subcolored - neither the lack of any evidence of the connection of the sculpture and pharaoh, nor the fact that the head of the sphinx was repeatedly reworked.
In the face of Sphinx, Pharaoh Hefren himself is convinced by the famous monument specialist Giza Dr. I. Edwards. "Although the Sphinx face is somewhat mutilated, it still gives us a portrait of Heffren himself," the scientist concludes. Interestingly, the body of Heffren himself was not found, and therefore, to compare the sphinx and pharaoh, they use the statues. First of all, we are talking about sculpture carved from black diorita, which is kept in the Cairo Museum - it is according to it that the appearance of the Sphinx.
To confirm or refute the Identification of Sphynx with Hefren, a group of independent researchers has connected to the case of the famous New York Police Frank Domingo, who created portraits for identifying suspects. After a few months, Domingo concluded: "These two works of art depict two different persons. Frontal proportions - and in particular corners and facial protrusions with a side review - convince me that the Sphinx is not Hefren. "
Mother of fear
Egyptian archaeologist Rudwan Ash-Shamaa believes that Sphinx has a female couple and it hides under the thick sand. A large sphinx is often called the "father of fear". According to the archaeologist, if there is a "father of fear", then there should be a "mother of fear". In his arguments, Ash-Shamaa relies on the way of thinking of the ancient Egyptians, which firmly followed the principle of symmetry.
In his opinion, the lonely figure of the sphinx looks very strange. The surface of the place where, on the assumption of a scientist, the second sculpture should be, towers over the Sphinx for several meters. "It is logical to assume that the statue is simply hidden from our eyes under the thickness of the sand," the Ash Shamaa is convinced. In support of its theory, the archaeologist cites several arguments. Ash-Shamaa reminds that the granite stele is located between the front paws of the Sphinx, on which two statues are depicted; There is also a limestone plate, which says that in one of the statues, lightning struck and destroyed it.
Chamber of Secrets
In one of the ancient Egyptian treatises on behalf of the Goddess Isisi, it is reported that God placed in the secret place "Sacred Books", which contains the "Secrets of Osiris", and then brought the place to this place, so that knowledge remains "unopened as long as The sky will not give birth to creatures that will be worthy of this gift. "
Some researchers and today are confident in the existence of a "secret room". They remember how Edgar Casey predicted that once in Egypt under the right paw of the Sphinx, a room was found, called the "Halp" or the "elevation hall". The information preserved in the "Secret Room" will guide humanity about the highly developed civilization that existed millions of years ago. In 1989, a group of Japanese scientists by the radar method found a narrow tunnel under the left panel of the Sphinx, which goes towards the pyramid of Hefren, and the north-west of the Tsaritsa chamber was found impressive cavity.
However, the Egyptian authorities did not allow the Japanese to conduct a more detailed study of the underground premises. Studies of American Geophysics of Thomas Dobetski showed that under the sphinx paws there is a large rectangular camera. But in 1993, his work suddenly suspended local authorities. Since that time, the Egyptian government officially prohibits geological or seismological studies around the Sphinx.
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