Wouldn’t this be an amazing seed for a novel? Who were the people who brought this sphinx so far east?
Fragments of a 4,000 year old Egyptian sphinx inscribed with the name of the pharaoh Micerino (otherwise known as Menkaure “Eternal like the Souls of Re”, or in Greek, Mycerinus or Mykerinus), were recently found in the eastern mediterranean. The fragments are from the only “Micerino” sphinx ever found in this area.
Archeology: remains of Egyptian sphinx found in Israel
Inscribed with the name of Micerino, the only sphinx in the East
“(ANSAmed) – TEL AVIV – Hebrew University archeologists have discovered two limbs belonging to an Egyptian sphinx at the Tel Hazor site in Upper Galilee, north of Lake Tiberias.
Destroyed in the 13th century BC, the ancient city of Hazor is now the largest archaeological site in northern Israel and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The fragments are in granite, 30-40 centimeters high, and weigh 40 kilos. Unearthed at the entrance to the city’s palace, they are inscribed with hieroglyphs naming Micerino, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt over 4,000 years ago and who built one of the three great pyramids of Giza, near Cairo.
This is reportedly the only Micerino sphinx ever found, and the only sphinx fragment ever discovered in the eastern Mediterranean. (ANSAmed).”
For the original article click
here.
To learn about this “Micerino” fellow (the last great pyramid builder), click
here. (But, if, like us, you are skeptical of the mainstream Egyptology timeline, you may find this history a bit puzzling – we think the pyramids and the sphinx are much, much older than 4000 years!)
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