The Sphinx of ancient Egypt has always been full of unsolved mysteries. So, is the secret of the Sphinx really unanswered? Why, at the height of the cry for the Sphinx's secrets, did the Egyptian authorities ban foreign scientists from participating in the development of the Sphinx, and even halt all expeditions to the Sphinx? Is it "God" or "Man" who prevents us from learning the secret of the Sphinx? Welcome to like the comment collection.
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Egypt's ban
What was the most mysterious thing about ancient Egypt? You might say pyramids, but in recent years, pyramids have ceased to be the "darlings" of explorers, and the Sphinx is. There are so many mysteries behind the Sphinx, who built the Sphinx? How many years of history? Is there any secret to the interior of the Sphinx?
Since the full picture of the Sphinx was revealed in 1926, countless expeditions, archaeological teams, and expeditions have punched in the vicinity of the Egyptian Sphinx. But just when enthusiasm was at its peak, the Egyptian government suddenly issued a ban on any excavations and expeditions near the Egyptian Sphinx. The ban was imposed by the famous archaeologist Tashi Havas, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt.
Tashi Havas
This ban has left many expeditions confused. After the confusion, the expedition began to denounce Havas. Logically, the Sphinx is indeed a cultural relic of Egypt, Egypt has a certain degree of management rights, foreign expeditions need to submit enough information and applications before conducting expeditions, and obtain Egyptian permission. But all of a sudden, they had reason to suspect that Egypt was hiding certain secrets.
And Havas also gave some explanations for the ban he gave:
First, the reason why the Egyptian government banned foreign explorers from investigating the Sphinx is to protect cultural relics, because the history of the Sphinx is at least 4,000 years, and the Sphinx is perennially windy and sunny, the stones are being eroded, and every activity of the expedition team is exacerbating the damage of the Sphinx.
Sphinx with pyramids
Second, to reduce the rumors about the Sphinx. Havas said there was once a religious order in the United States that meditated on the pyramids, and there were many so-called "psychics" who stood in front of the Sphinx and said they were born again. These extraordinary behaviors have intensified the rumors of the Sphinx.
Havas also specifically highlighted the situation inside the Sphinx. He said that although many people are firmly convinced that the Sphinx has treasures and secret chambers inside. Unfortunately, however, the inside of the Sphinx only has stones, and he himself is an archaeologist who has long been surveyed. The exploration of its internal affairs by other countries is often based on the excitement and failure.
Overhead passage
However, the Sphinx does have two passages. In 1881, an explorer named Howard Weiss did find an old tunnel on top of the Sphinx, which Havas had also inspected, but there was nothing in the 5-meter tunnel. At the tail of the Sphinx, there is also a tunnel of about 15 meters, which also contains nothing. Havas believes that this is the passage left by craftsmen when the Sphinx was built at that time.
In the account of Havas, the "number one" of Egyptian archaeology, there is nothing inside the Sphinx. But, inside it, is there really nothing there?
The Sphinx is secret
What exactly is inside the Sphinx? This question, when the Sphinx was still showing only one head, some people began to explore. The first person to find the Sphinx was Napoleon, who discovered it when he arrived in ancient Egypt in 1798. In 1925, a French engineer named Emile, believing that there was a huge treasure inside the Sphinx, began digging for sand near the Sphinx.
In 1933, the prophet Edgar Casey said that there was an archive under the Sphinx that recorded all the civilizations of Atlantis; in 1935, Edward Etalkettag published an article stating that Egypt had a huge underground city, and the entrance to this underground city was just below the Sphinx.
Scan results
In 1987, a research team at Waseda University in Japan conducted an electromagnetic survey of the Sphinx and found that there were two rooms under the front paws of the Sphinx and near the tail, both of which were made of granite, and there were interconnected shafts and tunnels between the two rooms, much like a part of a city. In the face of these claims, Havas's statement is: nonsense!
But Havas, who was so sworn, had also entered the interior of the Sphinx.
In 2009, Fox contacted Havas to make a documentary about the Sphinx. During the filming of the documentary, Havas guided the cameraman to the back of the Sphinx, where Havas picked up a sunken cover, and underneath the cover was an entrance that resembled a sewer shaft.
Shaft at the back
During the filming of the documentary, Havas went down a ladder, down to the shaft, and explored downwards. Throughout the documentary, it can be clearly seen that at the bottom of the shaft there is a huge room, the bottom is filled with water, and in the middle of the water, there seems to be 4 vertical stone pillars guarding a huge sarcophagus.
Could it be that inside the Sphinx, there is an unknown mausoleum in which a man is buried? Who will be the people buried here? The burial of Khufu in the Pyramid of Khufu has been confirmed, but in the ancient Egyptian records, there are few records of the Sphinx, so under an undocumented building, there is a huge sarcophagus surrounded by water, and the identity of the characters in this sarcophagus is very strange.
Havas entered the shaft
However, what was inside the sarcophagus, the cameraman did not shoot. Why? Because Havas at that time, suddenly very remorseful, agreed to Fox TV to shoot this documentary, demanding that the other party immediately delete the film and not to disseminate this video. Unfortunately, these videos were still passed out by some people, which caused the mystery of the largest sphinx chamber.
Although Egypt has vowed that there is nothing under the Sphinx, the results of recent research have undoubtedly humiliated Egypt. What was the sarcophagus that archaeologist Havas saw? Who's inside? What exactly is inside the Sphinx?
Some people speculate that there is no one in this sarcophagus at all, but it should be the "god" of ancient Egypt, because whether it is a sphinx or a pyramid, at the level of construction of the ancient Egyptians at that time, it cannot be built, and there must be someone specially pointing to them, whether this "god" is another high civilization of ancient humans, or aliens.
After the ancient Egyptians learned to build the pyramids, this so-called "god" entered the sphinx to sleep, and the ancient Egyptians probably held a grand funeral ceremony for him, and then followed the instructions of the "god" to build this sphinx to hide his whereabouts without any records. Because he was a "god" in the minds of the ancient Egyptians, he could not question anything that the ancient Egyptians would question, and he successfully became invisible in human civilization.
Ancient Egyptian frescoes
As for why this so-called "god" chose the Sphinx, no one knows. The Sphinx is also known as the "Sphinx", a myth that Egyptians are very familiar with. In ancient Egyptian mythology, the Sphinx was a monster born of giants and snakes, which had a human head but the body of a lion. In many ancient Egyptian books and artifacts, there have been patterns and records about the Sphinx, and this huge sphinx is not only one, but it is the largest, oldest, and most famous in the world.
On top of this huge Sphinx, the secrets hidden do not stop there. It is 73 meters long and 21 meters high. Carved from a single rock, archaeologists are puzzled.
First, this Sphinx is simply too big to be built at the level of its time, unless it acquires an external force that science cannot explain now.
In addition, some geologists believe that the history of the sphinx is not only 5,000 years old, but at least 9,000 years old, according to the degree of corrosion of the sphinx, because under the sphinx, there are traces of relatively serious rain erosion, and around 5,000 years, the Giza plateau where the sphinx is located, there is no large-scale rainfall. But 9,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians did not appear, could it be that the people who built the Sphinx were another civilization?
Scouring marks
The final mystery is that the mainstream of the archaeological community believes that the image of the Sphinx is close to that of the monster Sphinx. But in mythology, not only was the Sphinx ugly, but the Sphinx often killed people for fun, so why did the ancient Egyptians carve such a monster to accompany their most honorable ruler, Pharaoh?
The mystery of the Sphinx is likely to be many more years away. What do you think about that? Welcome to like the comment collection.