Sphinx Water Erosion Hypothesis

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Definition

The proposal by John Anthony West and geologist Robert Schoch, starting around 1990, that weathering on the Great Sphinx's enclosure was caused by rainfall, making the monument thousands of years older than mainstream dating.

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