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WAS THERE A SECOND SPHINX AT GIZA? majority of Egyptologists try to turn heir attention away from the nventory Stele: it poses too many problems. Some prefer to affirm that his stele was inscribed with a list of he inventory of the Temple of Isis and that it therefore dates from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty only. Maybe, but Mariette, its discoverer, spent more than 10 years researching the Giza Plateau and walked away with he conviction that the stele was erected by Khufu himself. It was Captain Giovanni Battista Caviglia who, in 1816, cleared the Sphinx and its surrounding temples from the sand and attributed the construction of the Sphinx to Khafre because of the proximity of his pyramid to the Sphinx. However, not a single inscription has confirmed this link and the Sphinx is not even in alignment with this pyramid. There is also a text from Pharaoh Amenhotep II (circa 1448-1420 BC), in which the Sphinx is mentioned and is labelled as “older than the pyramids". Then there is the famous Dream Stele of Tuthmosis IV (Eighteenth Dynasty; 1420-1411 BC). Certain Egyptologists all too quickly believe that they have seen the name of Khafre on a piece of the inscription (today no longer present) on the stele, in the praises to a deity, even though the name is not there in reality but is only in the outline of a single syllable, which is far from conclusive. Furthermore, they have inserted into the translation a second syllable that does not exist on the stele itself! The story goes that after a hunt, Tuthmosis IV (who was only a prince at the time and was not heir to the throne) reposed in the shadow of the head of the Sphinx, which was the only part of the monument that was still above ground, the underlying structures being covered by sand. In his sleep, he had a dream in which the Sphinx asked to be uncovered from the sands. In return, the Sphinx would give him power and fortune. Indeed, Tuthmosis decided to carry out the request and soon afterwards became pharaoh as well as very rich. However, what is particularly interesting on the Dream Stele is the representation of the Sphinx. There are two! Equally, one can see that the two Sphinxes sit on architectural constructions, i.e., a small temple with a gate. The usual interpretation by Egyptologists is that these temples were merely the representation of what was present in front and to the south of the Sphinx. However, such a conclusion fails, as it is well known that the rules of perspective for the ancient Egyptians were very strict and no official artist would allow himself to deviate from reality to such AR awtant Antoine Gigal has unearthed historical evidence which shows that, until the 11th century AD, a second Sphinx existed on the Giza Plateau but has since been dismantled. — Histories & Mysteries http://www. histories-mysteries.com 23 February 2009 was asked by the Duke of Luynes to verify the proposition of Pliny the Elder that the Sphinx had been constructed and was not monolithic. Mariette opened a trench near the Pyramid of Khufu (Fourth Dynasty; 2589-2566 BC), and in a sanctuary of sis (dating from the first century BC) e found the so-called Inventory Stele. The stele states that “during he reign of Khufu, he ordered the construction of a monument the ength of the Sphinx". The logical conclusion is that the Sphinx was already there, and that the standard heory, which is that the Sphinx was contemporary with Khafre (Fourth Dynasty; 2520-2494 BC), is incorrect. No wonder, therefore, that the [: 1858, Francois Auguste Mariette mane uitte ORE, os I \ ——— i Youve EVOLVED an extent. Most importantly, in the Inventory Stele there is mention of a lightning strike that struck the cap of a second Sphinx as well as a sycamore tree—a sacred tree in those days—which was burned by the same lightning strike. The lightning strike marked the beginning of the end of this second Sphinx. Som ervi/le 66 * NEXUS by Antoine Gigal © February 2009 APRIL - MAY 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com