Face of Sphinx does not resemble Chefren at all, page

It's been shown that the face of the Sphinx is black african not egyptian. It probably predates Khefren by a great deal.

And beyond that, the head is perfectly proportioned to itself and the body is perfectly proportioned to itself. But they don't match each other! This would indicate that the body was carved long before the current face, and it probably had a lion head long before even the current head. At some point a black african king re-carved the head. But it definitely has nothing to do with Khefren.
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[edit on 30-7-2008 by Hollywood11]

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People forget, or simply don't know, that sculptural portraits in ancient Egypt (and most of ancient Greek sculpture) were never supposed to be realistic depictions of the individual.
They depicted an IDEAL, or simply a "concept" (in this case - or in the case of Tut-Ankh-Amun' funerary mask - the "concept" of kinghood).
Therefore any extrapolations or conclusions based on the features depicted are necessarily more or less useless.

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You forget that those people may be "experts" in their fields of expertise (forensic science, anthropology?), but they know very little or nothing about representational concepts and canons at the time. they base their asumptions on today's view on portraiture.

I know what I am talking about. And I have seen this happen much too often for comfort...

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