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According to archaeologist Michael As to the precise location of the Note that in the 10th century CE, Poe, who refers to papyrus fragments second Sphinx, there are three the greatest Arab chroniclers and tom the Middle Kingdom, the second possibilities. The work is made historians mentioned the existence of Sphinx was located face to face with especially hard as the area has many gates that provided access to he still-existing Sphinx. It was modern buildings. We only know that subterranean galleries under the ocated on the other side of the Nile the Sphinx was on the other side of Sphinx. This, however, is a different and was destroyed by a violent rising the Nile—a river that was much wider _ story. ©0 of the river Nile circa 1000 AD. The in those days, especially at the times ocal people took stones from the _ of the inundations. About the Author: structure to rebuild Antoine Gigal is a French researcher/writer and the Egyptian correspondent for the French magazine L'Egypte. Gigal spent her early years in Africa and South America, where er father worked as a journalist and a diplomat, and thus had he opportunity to explore diverse cultures and civilisations. She studied at Sorbonne Paris Ill University and he National Institute o! Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO), where she graduated in Chinese and Japanese anguages and civilisations. Speaking Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Musabbihi writes about French, Gigal has lived a “sphinx smaller than mainly in Egypt for the the other" (likely ~The Dream Stele, photographed at the Rosicrucian Egyptian _!ast 20 years and calls because the other one Museum, San Jose, California, USA. Paris her second home. had deteriorated badly She lectures extensively by that time) on the other side of the The all-important questions, on ancient Egypt and leads severa Nile, made from bricks and stones nevertheless, are these... Why has study tours of Egypt every year. She (Annals of Rabi ll, circa 1024 AD). there not been more written about travels even to the most remote In total, these accounts present this second Sphinx? What is there to archaeological areas and is able to conclusive evidence that once there hide? Why not mention its gain access to monuments not open were two sphinxes: the Sphinx which deconstruction together with the _ to the general public. still exists; and a second Sphinx on removal of the outer lining of the For more information and photos, the opposite side of the Nile, made Great Pyramid, which was used bythe visit Antoine Gigal's website from bricks, which sustained people of Cairo for their homes? _http://www.gigalresearch.com. damaged and in relatively modern Perhaps the reason is more complex. (Source: Edited from the Histories & times, the 11th century, was used asa Maybe these Sphinxes hid/hide a Mysteries web page http://www.histories- quarry, resulting in its complete means to gain access to something mysteries.com/2009/02/23/a-second- dismantling. underneath the Giza Plateau. sphinx-at-gizeh/) heir villages. This thesis is confirmed by other exts, such as those of he great = Arab geographer and scholar Al-Idrisi (1099-1166 AD) in his two geographical encyclopaedias (Kitab al-Mamalik wa al-Masalik and Kitab al-Rujari). He mentions the presence of two Sphinxes at Giza—monuments he describes in great detail. One is in a very bad state, licked by the waters of the Nile, and several stones are missing. Other authors also mention the existence of two Sphinxes. The famous historian Al- As to the precise location of the second Sphinx, there are three possibilities. The work is made especially hard as the area has many modern buildings. We only know that the Sphinx was on the other side of the Nile—a river that was much wider in those days, especially at the times of the inundations. Note that in the 10th century CE, the greatest Arab chroniclers and historians mentioned the existence of gates that provided access to subterranean galleries under the Sphinx. This, however, is a different story. oo in to The all-important questions, nevertheless, are these... Why has there not been more written about this second Sphinx? What is there to hide? Why not mention its deconstruction together with the removal of the outer lining of the Great Pyramid, which was used by the people of Cairo for their homes? Perhaps the reason is more complex. Maybe these Sphinxes hid/hide a means to gain access to something underneath the Giza Plateau. NEXUS ¢ 67 APRIL - MAY 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com