-=> On 04-17-98  01:41, Patrick Ford said to Ivy Iverson,<=-
-=>"About Sphynx...,"<=-
-=> In a message of 15 Apr 98 Ivy Iverson wrote to me:
 
Hi, Patrick;
 
 It>> About the only thing that can't be reconstructed on the Sphynx is the 
 IT>>  nose, unless a profile picture or drawing can be found which showed 
 IT>> it before the damage occured.
...
 
 PF> If that were the case then thousands of photos of it would still
 PF> exist. I have  somewhere some pre WWII encyclopedias. I'll check them
 PF> and see what phots loook like. 
 
Sounds like a good idea.  Please let me know what you find.
 
 II> Considering several factors, including the fact that it is in the
 II> middle of a desert - almost no rain - and most of the erosion of the
 II> Sphynx and the Pyramids was obviously caused by thousands of years of
 II> rain, (including much HEAVY rain!), I tend to agree with you!  I feel
 II> that the chances that the Egyptians are nothing more than caretakers of
 II> those priceless objects, not their creators, is very high, though not
 II> totally certain.
 
 PF> I'm still waiting to make up my mind about the erosion story. So far I
 PF> have  only read of it publications where journalists write what they
 PF> thoght  scientists told them. I'll wait till I see an article written
 PF> by an accredited  scientist before I accept it.
 
Well, I base _my_opinion_ [(c) 1998 by Ivy] on the close-up pictures I
have seen which plainly show smooth vertical grooves cut into the surfaces
of both the Sphynx and the walls around it, which look the same as the
grooves which running water cuts into dirt banks.  This does not resemble,
even slightly, the marks left by blowing sand!  As a result, I am
convinced that that is water damage.  Since the amount of rain which falls
upon that part of the world now cannot possibly account for the amount of
water which would be required to cause this damage, and the climate there
has not supported that amount of water for many thousands, possibly
millions, of years, this means that they are truly ancient, dating back to
the flood of Noah, or perhaps the last poleshift or before.  This is far
older than any KNOWN civilation on this planet.  So were these ancient
artificats built by the ancestors of the Egyptions or "someone else"?
THAT is the question which, IMO, cannot be answered with our present
resources.  The ONLY way _I_ can think of that MIGHT answer a FEW
questions would be _IF_ some DNA could be extracted from some of the
mumies (sp?) and comapred to the DNA of present-day Egyptians, and I
consider this unlikely.  The only other possability would be _IF_ there is
a secret chamber, either under the Sphynx, (as was predicted by Edgar Cayce
and has been verified by seismic soundings), or elsewhere, it COULD contain
clues which might answer the questions.  However, considering that in
science, whenever one question is answered, it often presents more
questions.
 
Catch you later... Keep l00king up!
   Ivy
 
 
 
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