Author,
lecturer and guide, John Anthony West delivered a seismic shock to archaeology in the early 1990's when he and Boston
University geologist Robert Schoch revealed that the Great Sphinx of
Giza, Egypt, showed evidence of rainfall erosion. Such erosion could
only mean that
the Sphinx was carved during or before the rains that marked the transition
of northern Africa from the last Ice Age to the present interglacial
epoch, a transition that occurred in the millennia from 10,000 to 5000
BC.
"Egyptian
civilization was not a development, it was a legacy"
– John Anthony West
