but it does not appear that any meaningful greening of North Africa was anything more than a flash geologically speaking.. in the pan over the last 20K years.. ie.. from the ending of the last Glacial Maximum..
That's the traditional thinking, for sure..
But the manner in which erosion has occurred, indicates it was caused by water, not air. The erosion scores are vertical cuts through multiple rock layers, indicative of water run-off. On the other hand, wind erodes horizontally, between layers of soft and hard rock.
Note the erosion cuts in the Sphinx's surrounding enclosure, most of which was buried in sand for thousands of years. That kind of erosion would require significant rainfall over a long period of time. And unless someone can come up with a credible alternative theory, I opine that it's damn near irrefutable.
en.wikipedia.org
So it begs the question as to who built it, and was the head, which shows significantly less erosion (and none of it vertically cut erosion), actually re-carved from the existing
en.wikipedia.org
Now, prevailing science, and Eygptologists, will have you believe that no civilization capable of carving the Sphinx pre-dated the Egyptians. But there has been some pretty interesting findings in Turkey, where a site was located that carbon dating reports is 11,000 years old, making it the oldest sign of civilization in the area.
smithsonianmag.com
ngm.nationalgeographic.com
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