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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Preface: Robert M. Schoch
Chapter 1. The Great Paradox: Robert Bauval
A MYSTERY IN STONE
GATEWAY TO THE STARS AND THE SELECT PLACE OF THE FIRST TIME
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
THE PLATEAU
A LION’S HEAD GAZING EAST
FACES IN THE ROCKS
GIZA: A SACRED LANDSCAPE
THE SACRED MOUND OF CREATION
MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE
THE SKY WORLD OF THE DEAD
MEGALITHIC CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 2. The Sands of Time: Robert M. Schoch
REVEALING THE SPHINX: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
EXCAVATIONS AND REVELATIONS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
PENETRATING BELOW THE SURFACE: SEISMIC TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO THE SPHINX
WE WERE NOT THE FIRST: ANCIENT EXCAVATIONS AND RESTORATIONS
Chapter 3. Khafre: To Be or Not To Be?: Robert Bauval
ON THE SHOULDER OF GIANTS
LABELING THE TEMPLE
THE BROKEN CARTOUCHE
NOT THE FOURTH DYNASTY?
THE EDFU TEMPLE TEXTS
THE DAUGHTER OF KHUFU
THE ARCHIVES OF HELIOPOLIS
LORD OF ROSETAU
SELIM HASSAN’S “TEMPLE” OR GEORGE ANDREW REISNER’S “TEMPLE”?
OSIRIS AND ISIS IN THE PYRAMID AGE
Chapter 4. A Case of Mistaken Identity?: Robert Bauval
THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOUR FACE
PROFILING THE SPHINX
THE EXPERTS’ “BATTLE OF THE BEARD”
STRANGE AND SURPRISING SILENCE
AN OLDER NAME FOR THE GREAT SPHINX
THE LION, THE FALCON, AND THE MAN
A HOLE IN THE HEAD
THE INUNDATION AND THE SPHINX
THE WATER BEARER
Chapter 5. Horus Who Dwells in the Horizon: Robert Bauval
IN SEARCH OF THE “SECOND SPHINX”
THE LORD OF THE HORIZON
A BOOK OF “GENESIS” IN STONE
THE CROSS-QUARTER OF THE SOLAR YEAR
HORUS, SON OF ISIS
THE JUBILEE OF THE HORUS-KINGS
THE ZENITH OF THE SUN GOD
THE PRIMORDIAL FALCON
SUNRISE, LOOKING EAST AT THE TIME OF INUNDATION
TYING THE KNOT
FROM HELL TO PARADISE
THE CELESTIAL NILE
HAPI ON THE ROYAL THRONE
THE RUSSIAN AND THE QUARTET
Chapter 6. The Place Where the Gods Are Born: Robert Bauval
UNIFICATION OF THE TWO KINGDOMS
THE UNIFICATION OF EARTHLY EGYPT AND COSMIC EGYPT
THE IMAGE OF HEAVEN
THE ORION CORRELATION THEORY
THE “FIRST TIME” OF OSIRIS-ORION
Chapter 7. The Writing on the Wall: Robert M. Schoch
SOME PERSONAL BACKGROUND
REUSE AND RESTORATION OF AN OLDER SPHINX
WEATHERED ROCK AND CLIMATE CHANGE
CORROBORATION
Epilogue: Robert M. Schoch
Appendix 1. The “Paradigm Police” and the Upside-Down Worldview of an Authoritative “Expert”: Robert Bauval
OUT OF THE WOODWORK
THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF THE PARANORMAL AND THE COUNCIL FOR MEDIA INTEGRITY
THE BACKGROUND
WAS THE ORION CORRELATION THEORY ON THE HIT LIST OF THE COUNCIL FOR MEDIA INTEGRITY?
ATLANTIS REBORN . . . AGAIN
POSTSCRIPT
Appendix 2. The Orion Correlation Theory: Can It Be Falsified?: Robert Bauval
HOW WOULD ORION’S BELT BE LOGICALLY REPRODUCED ON THE GROUND?
IS NORTH “UP” OR “DOWN”?
AN ANGLE OF CONTENTION
POSTSCRIPT
THE QUANTITATIVE ASTRONOMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE OCT
THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE OCT
Appendix 3. The Ancient Egyptians and the Zodiacal Constellation of Leo: Robert Bauval
THE ZODIAC IN EGYPT
THE LION IN SUMMER
Appendix 4. The Sacred Mounds of the Memphite Region: Robert Bauval
A PRIMORDIAL LANDSCAPE
SOLAR ALIGNMENTS
Appendix 5. Text of the Dream Stela: Translation by J. H. Breasted, 1906
Appendix 6. Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza: The Original 1992 Paper: Robert M. Schoch
MAINSTREAM EGYPTOLOGISTS REACTED WITH TOTAL DISBELIEF WHEN IT WAS PROPOSED RECENTLY THAT THE FAMOUS PYRAMIDS SPHINX WAS MUCH OLDER THAN THE 4TH DYNASTY
REDATING THE GREAT SPHINX OF GIZA
NOTES
Appendix 7. Geological Evidence Pertaining to the Age of the Great Sphinx, Including Replies to the Critics: Robert M. Schoch
GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE PERTAINING TO THE AGE OF THE GREAT SPHINX
REFERENCES CITED
Appendix 8. Was the Great Sphinx Surrounded by a Moat? Was the Sphinx Originally Anubis?: Robert M. Schoch
ROBERT TEMPLE’S MOAT THEORY
SCRUTINIZING THE SPHINX
ANCIENT RAINS OR A MOAT?
GEOLOGICAL DETAILS
SUBSURFACE WEATHERING
SPHINX OR JACKAL? LION OR DOG?
THE GRANDEUR OF THE GREAT SPHINX
REFERENCES
Appendix 9. Controversies concerning the End of the Last Ice Age: Robert M. Schoch
DATING THE END OF THE LAST ICE AGE
THE YOUNGER DRYAS
IMPACT HYPOTHESIS
IF NOT AN IMPACT, THEN WHAT?
SOLAR ACTIVITY
GÖBEKLI TEPE AND AN EARLY CYCLE OF CIVILIZATION
REFERENCES
Footnotes
Bibliography
About the Authors
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
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