They believe it lies hidden in a chamber deep beneath the Forum, once the heart of ancient Rome and now an area of ruined temples and imperial palaces that attracts millions of tourists a year. ROME – Archaeologists in Rome are to embark on a quest for a 2,500-year-old stone sarcophagus linked to the legend of the city’s fabled founder – Romulus. 2019) s.v., IL MESSAGGERO (), & Giacomo Boni, Guido Cirilli| Romolo Artioli (1907-08). Maybe it doesn't want to be discovered.ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: The Roman Forum & Curia Julia – Archeologists to embark on quest for long-lost sarcophagus of Romulus, legendary founder of Rome. He has applied for permits to dig in the anomalous mound next to the Sphinx to look for its long lost twin. While there’s no indication when Cannon and Hutton’s tome will be released, El Shammaa is waiting. Many of these theories have been proposed before, but the book is expected to bring them all together. When it was not under sand was about 12,000 years ago and the Egyptians weren’t there.”Īdd to this the theory that erosion marks on the Great Sphinx were made when the Giza plateau was under water or under heavy deluges and the new 12000-year-old estimate seems more plausible. You can’t carve a rock when it’s under sand.
“The Sphinx had to have been carved when there was no sand there. Cannon says this in an interview with .uk:
However, they theorize that both the Great Sphinx and its possible twin are much older than currently accepted 4500 years. He thinks those are the remains of the twin and believes it was also hit lightning and destroyed beyond repair due to a metal crown some depictions show it wearing.Ĭannon and Hutton agree that this lightning strike would have occurred between 10 CE and the mound probably contains the broken stones. Moving to present day, El Shammaa points to pictures taken by NASA’s Endeavor Satellite showing an underground anomaly near the Great Sphinx. The so-called Inventory Stela – dated to 670 BCE and exhibited at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo – shows evidence that Cheops had to repair the Sphinx’s neck after it was hit by lightning. Another stele clearly depicted two sphinxes. While they have some new ideas on the age of the Great Sphinx, much of their research seems to be based on years of prior work done by Egyptologist Bassam El Shammaa.Įl Shammaa noted that the Dream Stela – a vertical stone carved during the reign of Thutmosis IV around 1400 BCE – shows two sphinxes. While it has long been theorized that a second Sphinx once existed, historians and authors Gerry Cannon and Malcolm Hutton are said to be working on a book revealing that it, or at least what’s left of it, is buried in a mound next to the great one. Why wouldn’t the Great Sphinx of Giza also have a partner, possibly facing west and tail-to-tail? Historians also say that ancient Egyptians believed the sun traveled through a tunnel inside the Earth every night and a pair of sphinxes guarded each end. For example, Aker, an earth and death deity, is often depicted as two recumbent sphinxes or lions, sometimes facing in opposite directions with their torsos merged. However, I agree with many that it seems strange there’s only one Great Sphinx of Giza, especially after finding out that most other depictions of a male sphinx come with an accompanying female twin.
It was destroyed between 1,000 and 1,200 AD. "Have you ever seen a Sphinx later in Egypt who was alone? The ancient Egyptians mentioned the second Sphinx and it is not only the Greeks, the Romans and the Muslims.
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