In this video Stephan Milo attempts to debunk the claim of Robert Schoch saying that the Sphinx is actually much older than commonly thought.

[Note: I usually agree with the information in Stephan Milo’s videos, but he didn’t really convince me against the “older Sphinx” argument that is detailed in the documentary “The Mystery of the Sphinx - New Scientific Evidence,” as I explain in this article.

(In Schoch’s documentary, he claims that the Sphinx must be much older than commonly claimed because it exhibits water erosion damage that could only have happened thousands of years earlier.  Schoch also points out that the weathering on the Sphinx is very different than on other structures in the area that are claimed to have been built at the same time, and he explains why he thinks that the Sphinx was likely carved down to its current apperance long after it was initially created.)]

Following are the points that Milo makes in the above video (and I have included my own comments):

— Milo attempts to debunk Robert Schoch’s “water erosion” claims by saying that various scientists have said that it has rained as much as three times more than previously thought during the Khufu dynasty.

[MY COMMENTS: The Sahara Desert oscillates between wet and dry periods in 20 thousand year cycles due to a wobble in the Earth’s rotation.  During the “wet” phases, the Sahara Desert region is lush grasslands with large lakes, and the last wet phase ended about seven thousand years ago.  The Khufu Dynasty was about 4,500 years ago, and thus apparently it was in the “desert” phase and not in a particularly wet one.  See this documentary that explains the long-term cyclical nature of the Sahara Desert’s climate in detail.

Also, Schoch has pointed out the fact that the erosion has occurred in an inconsistent manner on different structures in that region, which strongly suggests that the structures were built at different times even if it was in fact rainier during the Khufu Dynasty.]

— In Milo’s video he creates a perception that Schoch is trying to claim that ALL of the structures in that area such as the pyramids are much older than claimed, but Schoch never made that claim about the pyramids.

— Milo then pointed out the fact that there isn’t evidence of previous large scale habitations existing in that area, but I think evidence of an older civilization could have been covered up by the shifting riverbed or by rising sea levels.  I think it is possible that the Sphinx area was so sacred that it could have been taboo for people to live in “shantytowns” surrounding it, but rather they likely habituated elsewhere (perhaps somewhere along the riverbed or on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea) and made pilgrimages to the Sphinx instead.

— Milo didn’t address the issue of the lopsided proportions of the Sphinx which show that it was likely “carved down” to its current appearance at a later date.