Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.943

   > >> Oh, cool. And um I don't know and it was just interesting because they were just getting on to the subject of the Sphinx and as they're doing that Graham Hancock changes the topic and then they never

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2. 02 · yt0.715

   And when I saw that, I like, well, that's it. that that's why it looks the way it does. I mean, the limestone of the Sphinx body before they even carved it, the limestone was so soft, you could crumble parts of it in your fingers. If there's anybody out there who thinks you can take limestone that soft and carve it into a statue, I'd like to see them prove that. I'd like to see a way of having actually done that. I think they had no choice but to pound those layers back and cover it with those blocks from the very beginning. So that's where Mark Laner was wrong. He should have assigned those b…

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3. 03 · yt0.711

   And we see that at the Sphinx that there's a ser that the the limestone of the body is a very fossiliferous limestone, but the the head has no fossils in it whatsoever. And it's a very distinct change. And the and the limestone of the the sphinx body is very soft and and weathered, but the limestone of the sphinx head is is much stronger, more resistant to erosion and to weathering. And so it turns out that that is the middle eosene climatic optimum. So had this uh event 40 million years ago not have occurred then the capstone that formed the the the Giza it's a coesta it's not a plateau would…

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4. 04 · yt0.708

   And then at the end almost as a throwaway line he said, "Oh yes, and of course in French he said the the the great swings of Giza shows unmistakable signs of aquatic erosion, water weathering." And I realized when I read that that that was the gamecher that all the rest was a scholarly argument like arguments over Shakespeare or arguments over a passage in the Bible. There are better and worse arguments but none of it really amounts to science. And um I realized that this was if you could get if you could get the backup for it, this could this could rewrite history in and of itself because her…

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5. 05 · yt0.703

   and so and there's other fossils within the sphinx too and and and so it's when that goes extinct that you get into shallow benthic zone 17 which is where the middle eastern climatic optimum occurs and then i found some other fossils in the layer above that are also indicative of a particular time so i bracketed that that the limestone in the head was deposited in a particular period based primarily on the fossils okay uh i was wondering i think he can you kind of answered this but uh someone says i was wondering if the sphinx was a geological anomaly within different stone in the quarry or if…

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6. 06 · yt0.701

   i think in many ways it was the mystery of the sphinx that really broke everything open it brought everything to the public attention i've had many people tell me i'm not trying to brag or anything i'm just saying factually that this really opened up a new field if we could put it that way a new um you know way of looking at things in the popular among the popular um public yeah the popular media the but people around the world versus the academic scholarly journals and the back and forth that type of thing you have to remember i'm a faculty member i'm at boston university in my academic and m…

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7. 07 · yt0.700

   But almost every modern publication that mentions the Sphinx will have him come up, at least briefly. >> So, that has had a huge influence on how this subject is treated >> without question. So, you know, I was just going to start how I got involved in all of this. I don't I know we talked before but um I don't remember and nonetheless I think we should go through that. I I was watching NOVA on public television 13 years ago now. It's hard to believe and there was an episode on the Sphinx >> and I was like I don't really care about this episode but I left it run in the backgr…

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8. 08 · yt0.697

   And so that was a and that's how that's pretty slick and that's how they move these blocks around. Um, but if you look to the south, you're going to see that there's what's considered by some to be a watti. And that's an indication that whatever rock was above the limestone of the sphinx head was very soft and it eroded away. And so, um, you can determine how thick that was. And I I bet that's what George Rynisner did to come up with the the how that that the Sphinx head was the original surface at Giza. Now, if that is the case, and I'm going to argue that the geological evidence for that is …

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9. 09 · yt0.697

   And um so we talked about that and then he said, "What's your presentation?" And I I came back and I I said, "Well, I found, you know, the the the middle eosene climatic optimum." I said, "It's sort of like finding the aridium layer that killed off the dinosaurs." I can't believe I'm telling you this, but you know, so it's been the reason I tell that story in part is because I have met some of the most interesting people and I've done things and I I think this is one of the things that we can agree upon the the people no matter what side you're on in terms of the age of the Sphinx or lost civi…

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10. 10 · yt0.692

    I'm sure he doesn't want to uh try to defend what he's saying. And anyway, so the thing that I didn't know anything about that we we t discussed subject matter of the debate and we we settled in on the the Sphinx Gabbecley and the Channel Scablands and I said I didn't know much of the channels scabland. So I contacted Bruce Bourneststead who's got a guide book and I asked if I could if he would take me on a private tour and he said sure but why don't you go to the GSA conference. We've got a 4-day trip with Vic Baker, Richard Wade, Brian Atwater. Um, I mean, these are the big name people in me…

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