20 Mind-Boggling Mysteries Of The Great Sphinx
Sitting in its desert splendor, overlooked by the magnificent Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx presents one of the world’s most intriguing enigmas. Controversy still rages even around basic questions such as how old it is. Who built it? What was its purpose? Read on to find out about some of the baffling mysteries that swirl around the Great Sphinx to this day.
If you ever make it to Giza in Egypt to view the Great Sphinx for yourself, you’ll come across a much-weathered but undeniably impressive stone statue. But what exactly would you see if you boarded a time machine and traveled back some 4,500 years? That’s when the Sphinx is believed to have first been unveiled. And according to researchers, it looked very different back then.
Sphinx in color
For a start, it was painted in bright hues. Archaeologists believe the face was red, while yellow and blue pigments have been found on the body. The nose and goatee beard, long gone, would be present and correct as well. The dramatic cobra motif that once graced the statue’s head dress would also be in place. So it would present a very different prospect than it is today, that’s for sure.
Described by Encyclopedia Britannica as an “American self-proclaimed faith healer and psychic,” Edgar Cayce passed away in 1945 aged 68. His connection with the Great Sphinx comes from a trance that he once fell into. Cayce claimed that during this reverie he witnessed survivors from the fabled but destroyed city of Atlantis stashing important manuscripts beneath the Sphinx.
Still searching for the Hall of Records
Distinguished contemporary Egyptologist Mark Lehner later told PBS that Cayce’s claims had led him to pursue his studies of ancient Egypt. And when Lehner started field work in Egypt in the early 1970s, he actually spent time searching for what Cayce described as the Hall of Records. Sadly, though, Lehner didn’t find it – and nobody else has, either. But never say never!
