Sphinx

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The Ultimate Sphinx Book

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What was the Sphinx for, and what is the Sphinx?The Sphinx's body is not a lion, but another creature.The head was re-carved, and the Pharaoh's face cannow be identified.There is a burial chamber inserted beneath the waist ofthe Sphinx. 280 years' worth of published accounts of eyewitnesses who saw the chamber, all of them published herein full, prove its existence. It was sealed with cement in 1926.The story of the Middle Kingdom pharaoh who uncoveredthe Sphinx was still being told by the locals in 1482, asrecorded by a Dutch visitor. This is the longest recorded survivalof folklore in world history, a tale which survived with its essentialfacts intact for three thousand years.The Nile in ancient times lapped near the feet of the Sphinx,and the Sphinx was like an island surrounded by waterfilling 'the Sphinx Pit' where it sits now. The photographicevidence of sluices for controlling the inflow of the waterare published. The water erosion is fully explained.Evidence published here proves that the Sphinx is part of aunified design with the three main pyramids of Giza. It was'the guardian' of Giza. The three pyramids and the Sphinxwere all conceived as a single complex.The Sphinx was originally a crouching figure of the doggod Anubis, traditionally the guardian of the dead in ancientEgypt.Every published account of the Sphinx from Roman timesto 1837 is published in the back of the book, most translatedfrom foreign languages. These were collected over manyyears and are now gathered into one place.The Sphinx was part of a sacred resurrection cult basedupon the rising sun at the equinox.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-02-15
Mått260 x 297 x 36 mm
Vikt2 472 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor482
FörlagEglantyne Books
ISBN9781913378158

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PROFESSOR ROBERT TEMPLE is the author of a dozen challenging and provocative books, commencing with the international best-seller, The Sirius Mystery. His books have been translated into a total of 44 foreign languages. He is Visiting Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and previously held a similar position at an American university. For many years he was a science writer for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and a science reporter for Time-Life, as well as a frequent reviewer for Nature and profile writer for The New Scientist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and has been a member of the Egypt Exploration Society since the 1970s, as well as a member of numerous other academic societies. He has produced, written and presented a documentary for Channel Four and National Geographic Channels on his archaeological discoveries in Greece and Italy, and he was at one time an arts reviewer on BBC Radio 4's 'Kaleidoscope'. With his wife, Olivia, he is co-author and translator of the first complete English version of Aesop's Fables, which attracted a great deal of international press attention at the time of its release, as the earlier translations had suppressed some of the fables because of Victorian prudery. Temple was a colleague of the late Dr. Joseph Needham of Cambridge, in association with whom he wrote The Genius of China, which has been approved as an official reference book (in Chinese) for the Chinese secondary school system, and which won five national awards in the USA. He has done archaeometric dating work and intensive exploration of closed sites in Egypt with the permission of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. His research into historical accounts of the Sphinx is the first comprehensive survey ever undertaken.

Introduction by Olivia Temple....................................................................................1Introduction by Robert Temple...................................................................................51 Sphinx Obsession........................................................................................................102 The "Secret Chamber" beneath the Sphinx................................................................683 An Amazing Survival..................................................................................................1264 The Face of the Sphinx...............................................................................................1585 The Sphinx as Anubis.................................................................................................1966 Sphinx Island..............................................................................................................2377 The Sphinx and the Giza Plan.....................................................................................3248 The Golden Angle of Resurrection..............................................................................381Accounts of the Sphinx from Roman Times to 1837Section 1Accounts of the Sphinx from Roman Times to 1798................................................................444Section 2Accounts of the Sphinx from 1800 to 1837..............................................................................493Appendix OneExcavations of Monsieur Mariette atthe Great Sphinx ......................................................................................................................506By Auguste MarietteTranslated by Olivia Temple Appendix TwoConcerning the Age of the Sphinx at Giza ...............................................................................509By Ludwig BorchardtTranslated by Robert Temple and Eleonore ReedAppendix ThreeSphinx ...................................................................................................................................518By James Burton (1822)Appendix FourA Description of Giambattista Caviglia's Excavationof the Sphinx............................................................................................................................520Translated by Stefano GrecoAppendix FiveScientific Visual Documentation of the Sphinx.........................................................................525Notes ...................................................................................................................................537Index ...................................................................................................................................555