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When told of my work on redating the Sphinx, Egyptologist Carol Redmount of the University of California, Berkeley, was quoted and paraphrased as saying (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 23 October 1991, p. A18 "
'There's just no way that could be true [that the oldest portion of the Sphinx dates back to 5000 B.C. or earlier].' The people of that region would not have had the technology, the governing institutions or even the will to build such a structure thousands of years before Khafre's reign, she said." And Redmount continued, stating "that conclusion [that the Sphinx is considerably older than Khafre] flies in the face of 'everything we know about ancient Egypt.' " Likewise, Peter Lacovara, assistant curator of the Egyptian department of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, attempted to dismiss my work by stating (quoted from THE BOSTON GLOBE, 23 October 1991, p. 8 "
That's ridiculous. . . Thousands of scholars working for hundreds of years" [a bit of an overstatement as to how many persons have seriously studied the Sphinx] have studied this topic . . . "the chronology is pretty well worked out. There are no big surprises in store for us."
The Egyptological community did little to address my arguments and data. One of the most cogent statements made against my data was Dr. K. Lal Gauri's: "Neither the subsurface evidence nor the weathering evidence indicates anything as far as the age is concerned. It's just not relevant" (SCIENCE, 14 February 1992, vol. 255, p. 793). But of course such a statement lacks any objective basis.
The reason this evidence is "not relevant" to my critics is that they cannot accept the implications of the evidence. They "know" when the Sphinx was built, and no evidence can overthrow their long‑cherished beliefs. Since they cannot refute the evidence, it is dismissed as not relevant.
The main tactic used to counter my heresy was to try to dismiss me as a quack and non‑ person. Dr. Kathryn Bard (Archaeology Department, Boston University) strongly implied (in BOSTON UNIVERSITY TODAY, 11‑17 November 1991, p. 6), by association, that my work on the Sphinx falls into the same category as that of "
charlatans and sensation seekers." (as a side note, thus far Dr. Bard has refused
to debate me in person on the topic despite an invitation from a neutral branch of Boston University to arrange such a meeting) Dr. Mark Lehner of the University of Chicago accused me of practicing "
pseudoscience" (NEW YORK TIMES, 9 February 1992, p. 16). Dr. Zahi Hawass, then Director of Antiquities of the Giza Plateau and Sakkara, referred to the research as "
American hallucinations" (see J. A. West, 1993, Serpent (revised edition), p. 229). To top it all off, an article was published in the Arabic newspaper "Al‑ Ahram" (Cairo, 24 November 1991) in which it was allegedly stated [I do not read Arabic, thus I have only read a translation of the article; see also P. W. Roberts, 1993, River in the Desert, p. 129] that Dr. James Wiseman (Chairman of the Archaeology Department, Boston University) asserted that I am not a member of the Boston University community. Of course, this is in error ‑‑ I am a full‑time, permanent (tenured) faculty member at Boston University. I am not, however, a member of the Archaeology Department in the College of Liberal Arts, Boston University, but rather a member of the Division of Science and Mathematics in the College of General Studies (formerly the College of Basic Studies) Boston University. Boston University consists of some fifteen Schools and Colleges, and over 2,400 faculty members; perhaps the confusion concerning my affiliation with Boston University is due to the size of the university and the number of different academic units it contains.
Clearly the Egyptological community was up in arms, and the easiest way to get rid of me (or so they thought)
was with ad hominem attacks on my person. A large part of the problem seemed to be that I was an "outsider" (my Ph.D. is in geology and geophysics from Yale), and off the record I was even told by an Egyptologist that there were plenty of rocks for me to study other than those on the Giza Plateau where the Sphinx stands.
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