1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,480 Hey everybody, I've got a video here for you today, and I did some reading last night, 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:12,439 and I think I'm going to try to answer a common question I have received over the p... 3 00:00:12,439 --> 00:00:14,120 or two. 4 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:20,120 And this video here, the Ignored Sphinx Inscription, I just did a little reading t... 5 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:22,080 about my thoughts on this. 6 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:24,160 I just thought it was interesting. 7 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:29,760 I never really have time to make in-depth or fancy videos, but mainly what you get is 8 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:34,240 just my thoughts and ideas on things. 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,880 And this was an interesting read. 10 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:42,000 There was stuff that was found and inscribed on the left paw of the sphinx, and there 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,359 were many researchers that went into Giza about 200 years ago and tried to do... 12 00:00:47,359 --> 00:00:53,400 work and really tried to put together a story on these ancient monuments. 13 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,060 And this is one of the videos I did on it, and I just want to go a little more deeply 14 00:00:57,140 --> 00:01:04,859 to this today, because in looking into the Giza Plateau, you got to look at the history 15 00:01:04,859 --> 00:01:11,500 and what was actually found here, and some of it is not the story we have been getting 16 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:16,300 today and certainly not from Egyptologists. 17 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:20,379 But what I found, I thought this was rather incredible, and I just want to do a little 18 00:01:20,379 --> 00:01:21,800 reading here. 19 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:29,479 This is the Pyramid Text Online, and this is a book written almost 200 years ago by 20 00:01:29,479 --> 00:01:34,079 a Richard William Howard Weiss, and this is called Operations Carried Down at the... 21 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:40,039 of Giza in 1837 with an account of voyage into Upper Egypt, volume 3. 22 00:01:40,039 --> 00:01:42,879 And this is one of three books he did on this. 23 00:01:42,879 --> 00:01:47,939 But in the end of his last book, just in an appendix at the end, he puts in a little 24 00:01:47,939 --> 00:01:51,459 chapter on the sphinx, and I want to read. 25 00:01:51,459 --> 00:01:58,859 This monument, so imposing to its aspect, even in its mutilated state to which it has 26 00:01:58,859 --> 00:02:06,119 been reduced, has always excited the admirations of those who possessed suffici... 27 00:02:06,119 --> 00:02:10,939 of art to appreciate its merit at first glance. 28 00:02:10,939 --> 00:02:18,819 For though to an untutored eye, there remains so little of the features as scarcely to 29 00:02:18,819 --> 00:02:25,739 give more than a general idea of the human head, yet by repeated and accurate... 30 00:02:25,739 --> 00:02:32,099 the several parts may be sufficiently traced to afford a tolerably complete idea of its 31 00:02:32,099 --> 00:02:34,419 original perfection. 32 00:02:34,419 --> 00:02:38,500 The contemplative turn of an eye, the mild expression of the mouth, and the beautiful 33 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:43,359 disposition of the drapery at the angle of the forehead sufficiently attest to the... 34 00:02:43,359 --> 00:02:47,740 skill of the artist by whom it was executed. 35 00:02:47,780 --> 00:02:54,900 It is true that no great attention has been made to those proportions which are... 36 00:02:54,900 --> 00:03:01,060 to admire, nor does the pleasing impression which it produces result from any known rule 37 00:03:01,060 --> 00:03:03,620 adapted in its execution. 38 00:03:03,620 --> 00:03:12,020 But it may rather be attributed to the unstudied simplicity of the conception, to... 39 00:03:12,020 --> 00:03:19,700 that high finish of several parts, and to the stupendous magnitude of the whole. 40 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:25,260 Such are the sentiments which a repeated view of this extraordinary work has inspired. 41 00:03:25,260 --> 00:03:31,540 At first I confess that I, like many other travelers, I felt that the praises lavished 42 00:03:31,540 --> 00:03:37,219 upon it by Norden, Dendon, and others were exaggerated. 43 00:03:37,219 --> 00:03:41,620 But the more I studied it at different hours of the day, and under different effects of 44 00:03:41,620 --> 00:03:48,140 light and shade, the more I became convinced of their having barely done justice to its 45 00:03:48,140 --> 00:03:49,140 merits. 46 00:03:49,140 --> 00:03:55,259 It must indeed be allowed that the drawings by both these gentlemen, but faintly accord 47 00:03:55,259 --> 00:04:01,140 with their—and I can't really read that next word—but after having repeated the 48 00:04:01,140 --> 00:04:08,580 same task myself with little success, I must admit that the difficulties which attend the 49 00:04:08,580 --> 00:04:14,900 undertaking are sufficient to baffle the efforts of anyone not professionally... 50 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:17,379 to the arts. 51 00:04:17,379 --> 00:04:23,379 And this is really small print, and I'm just trying to get through this the best as... 52 00:04:23,379 --> 00:04:29,020 But let me go on and do some reading of these excavations that were done over 200 years 53 00:04:29,020 --> 00:04:30,020 ago. 54 00:04:30,020 --> 00:04:34,939 And Robert Temple goes into some early history of people that did studies on the... 55 00:04:34,939 --> 00:04:37,220 what they actually found. 56 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:43,100 Now, before I proceed, I must premise that the general impression made upon me by this 57 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:49,700 monument has been produced by deliberate contemplation of it when laid open to its... 58 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:55,820 fragments of a beard resting beneath the chin with its paws stretched fifty feet in... 59 00:04:55,820 --> 00:05:02,180 and with the temple, the granite tablet, and the altar represented in the accompanying 60 00:05:02,180 --> 00:05:08,740 sketches spread out on a regular platform in its front. 61 00:05:08,740 --> 00:05:09,740 And I've had questions. 62 00:05:09,740 --> 00:05:12,699 Is the Sphinx placed on a platform? 63 00:05:12,699 --> 00:05:15,500 Well, that's a very good question. 64 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:23,340 These interesting objects, which no one for ages had had opportunity of seeing, have 65 00:05:23,340 --> 00:05:30,660 undoubtedly tended to exalt in my estimation and in order that I may endeavor to convey 66 00:05:31,140 --> 00:05:36,620 something of the same feeling to others, I shall proceed to a detailed account of what 67 00:05:36,620 --> 00:05:42,140 was discovered by Captain Kviglia, which together with several sketches taken on the 68 00:05:42,140 --> 00:05:49,620 spot during the progress of his operations may remain as a record of his labors when 69 00:05:49,620 --> 00:05:56,460 the objects themselves are destroyed or again entombed in the moving sands. 70 00:05:57,259 --> 00:06:04,139 And he has an account of the workers working for seven days and barely making any progress 71 00:06:04,139 --> 00:06:09,979 because he describes just a river of sand constantly flowing into this enclosure when 72 00:06:09,979 --> 00:06:12,099 they were trying to excavate it. 73 00:06:12,099 --> 00:06:17,740 And that's really, I guess, why it has been entombed by sand for so long, is just because 74 00:06:17,740 --> 00:06:23,019 it's a monumental task to keep the sand out of it, and especially in ancient times. 75 00:06:23,579 --> 00:06:28,379 It says, from varying reports in circulation in Egypt, I was given to understand that the 76 00:06:28,379 --> 00:06:34,620 French engineers had made a considerable excavation in the front of the Sphinx and... 77 00:06:34,620 --> 00:06:42,339 had just discovered a door at the time when they were compelled to suspend their... 78 00:06:42,339 --> 00:06:46,259 And I guess there was some sickness on these workers and there were some other problems 79 00:06:46,259 --> 00:06:49,620 and they just had to stop what they were doing. 80 00:06:49,620 --> 00:06:54,060 They only had so much time, so much money, but right before they stopped, they... 81 00:06:54,060 --> 00:06:55,579 a door. 82 00:06:55,579 --> 00:07:00,899 This account was confirmed by the repeated assertions of the Arabs, several of whom 83 00:07:00,899 --> 00:07:06,379 declared that they had been present at the time of the discovery, and said that the 84 00:07:06,379 --> 00:07:13,740 door led into the body of the Sphinx, while others affirmed that it was conducted up 85 00:07:13,860 --> 00:07:15,660 to the second pyramid. 86 00:07:15,660 --> 00:07:21,540 The little stress could be laid upon such statements, yet they rendered Captain... 87 00:07:21,540 --> 00:07:28,460 very unwilling to give up his researches without at least doing all his power to... 88 00:07:28,460 --> 00:07:30,259 the fact. 89 00:07:30,259 --> 00:07:38,180 And it talks about the deep trench, and let me just go on here. 90 00:07:38,180 --> 00:07:43,000 And here is fragments of the beard, and they had some art on the side of it. 91 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:52,360 And this beard was constructed by every account in the 18th dynasty. 92 00:07:52,360 --> 00:08:02,560 And a writer from the Greek time, about 2200-2300 years ago, says that the Sphinx ... 93 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:12,839 of Amos, the very first ruler of the 18th dynasty, but a clear mistake was made, and 94 00:08:13,679 --> 00:08:22,119 what it actually says is that the Sphinx was the tomb of Thutmose, who I clearly... 95 00:08:22,119 --> 00:08:29,759 in every respect, and even the angle of the face, the history, his opportunity, and the 96 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:34,419 whole reason why he put his face on the Sphinx. 97 00:08:34,419 --> 00:08:40,079 It is clear from reading this, about the beard, and the history of the beard, and w... 98 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:46,280 were writing about a possibility of the Sphinx being a tomb for Thutmose. 99 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,500 It's clear his face is on the Sphinx, that's all I'll say about that. 100 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:54,200 And it talks about the excavation more work here, and talks about the beard. 101 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:59,480 It says most of these fragments were found in a small temple, ten feet long, and ten 102 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:06,400 feet broad, which was immediately below the chin of the statue, which according to Pliny, 103 00:09:06,399 --> 00:09:08,199 contained the body of Amos. 104 00:09:08,199 --> 00:09:15,480 And this is a mistake, and it says a little later how he mistook Amos for Thutmos. 105 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:20,600 It says soon after this discovery, a large block of granite on the eastern side, of... 106 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:28,319 figures and hieroglyphics were beautifully inscribed, found in the small temple,... 107 00:09:28,319 --> 00:09:34,639 with two other tablets, composed of calcyreous stone. 108 00:09:34,639 --> 00:09:43,319 And here he gives a diagram of what was found in front of the Sphinx, when there was... 109 00:09:43,319 --> 00:09:45,139 done about 200 years ago. 110 00:09:45,139 --> 00:09:47,600 Have you ever seen this before? 111 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:55,080 The stairs leading down, and they said that there was a doorway found leading under the 112 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:56,480 Sphinx. 113 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,620 Here is what we have today, and it's clear. 114 00:10:00,740 --> 00:10:05,899 Remember, this is about six, seven stories high, so a person standing down here would 115 00:10:05,899 --> 00:10:10,259 be quite small, and this is a rather large area here. 116 00:10:10,259 --> 00:10:17,139 I mean, it looks small here, but when you actually realize how big this area is, and 117 00:10:17,139 --> 00:10:25,980 you compare it to this, where the corners are of this pedestal, and you compare this 118 00:10:26,220 --> 00:10:33,420 to where this ledge leads off, and the obvious sloping and the cover-up of someth... 119 00:10:33,420 --> 00:10:39,560 by this platform, what are they really trying to hide with this platform here? 120 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:44,180 Is this a really necessary platform, or is there an ulterior motive to this purpose in 121 00:10:44,180 --> 00:10:45,180 here? 122 00:10:45,180 --> 00:10:50,860 You can kind of see what could be the edges of these stairs, and there was also, it was 123 00:10:50,860 --> 00:10:58,860 reported, a door found under here, and people doing these excavations work 200 years ago, 124 00:10:58,860 --> 00:11:04,620 weren't putting out, you know, crazy stories for YouTube hits. 125 00:11:04,620 --> 00:11:08,820 They were trying to deduce what was actually here at the time, and they would have no 126 00:11:08,820 --> 00:11:12,700 reason to lie. 127 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:19,180 There was an altar, there was stairs going down into the temple of Tep 2F, and I will 128 00:11:19,259 --> 00:11:22,739 be going more into this, I just don't have a lot of time today, but I thought this was 129 00:11:22,739 --> 00:11:29,739 extremely interesting, and there is inscriptions on the left paw that say this... 130 00:11:29,739 --> 00:11:36,739 the guardian of Osiris, and there is only one guardian of Osiris, and that was the great 131 00:11:37,459 --> 00:11:42,539 god Anubis upon his shrine. 132 00:11:42,539 --> 00:11:47,899 The stairways leading up to the Sphinx, and he talks about the shadow, the trick of the 133 00:11:47,899 --> 00:11:52,059 shadow of the light of day, how it plays on the Sphinx. 134 00:11:52,059 --> 00:11:58,539 Well, what is it about the latitude, or whatever, 30 degrees that the Great Pyrami... 135 00:11:58,539 --> 00:11:59,539 are located on? 136 00:11:59,539 --> 00:12:04,419 Does anybody know the special shadow play that is done at that latitude? 137 00:12:04,419 --> 00:12:11,100 I just found this whole article interesting, this whole book interesting. 138 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:16,259 A clear diagram of what is in front of the Sphinx, he would have no reason to lie. 139 00:12:16,299 --> 00:12:18,539 I'm going to be going more into this when I have time. 140 00:12:18,539 --> 00:12:21,419 Hope you thought this was interesting, and you all have a very nice day.