Now, we get started on my own:
Here is some information I dug up on the subject if anyone is interested:
http://www.shadowluna.com/foxparadox/buildlikeanegyptian/digginginthecatbox/digginginthecatbox.html quote:
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Forever staring and waiting for the sunrise of each day, is the body of a 240 foot lion, with a Pharaoh's head reaching to 66 feet over the floor of the Giza Plateau. Carved from limestone bedrock and easily the most recognizable stone carving that has ever been uncovered, it sits in its own enclosure facing due East with The Great Pyramid to the North. The Sphinx has been buried up to it's neck in sand for more than half of it's known life. Apparently having been rescued from the ever shifting sands of the Sahara on a number of occasions, the Sphinx was up to it's neck in sand as recently as the nineteenth century, as some of the earlist know photographs attest. It is believed to have been commissioned by the Pharaoh Khafre, the supposed builder of the second Pyramid which sits directly behind it. Khafre was the successor of Khufu, the supposed builder of the Great Pyramid, the largest stone structure ever known to be built. Khafre was also the predecessor of Menkaure, the alleged builder of the third and smallest Pyramid of the three.
The Evidence The Egyptologists definitive claim that Khafre had the Sphinx built is based on some really interesting conclusions.
The first is the obvious placement of the Sphinx directly in front of the Pyramid attributed to Khafre. That is based on the assumption that Khafre built the Pyramid that sits behind it in the first place and that in itself is quite a leap. If we give them Khafre as the builder of the Pyramid behind it, you still are leaping to a conclusion that he built both.
The Egyptologists claim as additional evidence that the face of the Pharaoh depicted is the face of Khafre. This conclusion is drawn based on comparison to a life-size statue that now sits in the Cairo Museum which is said to belong to Khafre. In 1993 a group of independent researchers commissioned a New York Police Detective, who as a senior forensic artist had been working with facial identification for more than 20 years, to compare the face of the statue in the museum, believed to be Khafre, with the face of the Sphinx. Offering the angular measurements that he uses as the tools of his trade as evidence, he determined that they were not the same face. Having measured the degree of angle from the outer corner of the mouth to the outer corner of the eye, he found an18 degree difference. The Pharaoh depicted on the Sphinx has a jutting jaw that angles to 32 degrees off the vertical, and the statue said to depict Khafre angles to only 14 degrees off the vertical. Another aspect of facial attributes is the shape of the diameter of the face from the front. The statue of Khafre, complete with headdress, at the Cairo Museum has an oval face, the Sphinx has more of a square shaped face. Also the mouth and the eyes of the Sphinx are larger proportionally than the mouth and eyes of the statue of Khafre. If you give the Egyptologists Khafre as the builder of the second pyramid and the Sphinx, the quality of workmanship seems to be far off the norm.
Between the front paws of the Sphinx is a granite stela which was erected in commemoration of a renovation campaign carried out by Pharaoh Thuthmosis IV (1401 BC - 1391 BC). It contains the single syllable 'Khaf', which the Egyptologists immediately claimed was proof that Khafre was the builder of the Sphinx. The Stela was dug up in 1817 and was already badly damaged. Even though the portion of the Stela containing 'Khaf' has now completely flaked away, there isn't any reason to doubt that the syllable 'Khaf' actually appeared on the stela at the time of it's excavation, as it appears to have been well documented. Not to leave something significant unsaid, the stela was inscribed with hieroglyphs which had to be translated to English. One extremely important fact that is impossible to ignore, unless of course you are an Egyptologists it would seem, is the fact that every inscription, and that means literally every inscription, found dated to the very beginning to the very end of the Pharaonic era represented the name of a Pharaoh in a cartouche. A cartouche is an oval-shaped object that framed the inscribed hieroglyphs which spelled out the name of the Pharaoh. Not one single exception has ever been found. Seems to be convenient that this would be the one exception, but just for a moment lets give the Egyptologists that exception. Thuthmosis IV lived 1,000 years later than Khafre, which is a very long time for knowledge to have been passed by word of mouth, as there have been no other inscriptions uncovered that would have bridged the gap of 1,000 years between the two Pharaohs. So even if the not very likely is true, and the Thuthmosis IV stela did refer to Khafre as the builder, how can we be sure that wasn't an assumption on Thuthmosis part? Again, even if we ignore the obvious and stipulate that it does refer to Khafre, it still fails to offer proof.
Furthermore another stela known as the 'Inventory Stela', uncovered at Giza and believed to be contemporary to the era, states that the Pharaoh Khufu saw the Sphinx. Being that Khufu was the predecessor to Khafre, and Pharaohs were Pharaohs for life, it would make it impossible for Khafre to build it and Khufu to see it.
Egyptologists view the 'Inventory Stela' as fiction, again simply dismissing anything that contradicts them.
One more interesting aspect of the Sphinx weighs in heavy on this debate. It is less obvious from the front, but quite apparent viewed in profile. Proportionately the head is way too small for the body. It would be easy to blame the enormity of the carving for this, but if the Pyramids were built, and this is key, and the Sphinx as we see it today, at the same time, the craftsmanship seems less than should be expected. If however the Sphinx was uncovered, and the Sphinx head was recarved during the fourth dynasty by Khafre into the head of a Pharaoh, complete with headdress, that would allow for a reason for Khafre's name to appear on the afore mentioned stela and for the Egyptologists to believe it is the face of Khafre. However, I can't leap that far; it doesn't look like the statue of Khafre in the Cairo Museum, and the 'Khaf' isn't in a cartouche as it must be.
Conclusion
It should be the Flying Egyptologists, the name of a Trapeze act at the circus, for all the leaps these scientists make. Where the Sphinx sits in relation to the Pyramids needs more than just the assumption that they are accurate in their assessments of when the Pyramids were built, it needs evidence that proves who built one built the other, more about when the monuments of the Giza Plateau were built in The Dating Game. The inscriptions on the Sphinx stela do not match other historical inscriptions without the cartouche, and proclaiming the 'Inventory Stela' to be fiction, because it punches a hole in their conclusions, is manipulating the evidence to support their truth, not collecting evidence to find the truth.
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With all due respect to our Egyptology friends who do the actual work, I think that some of the traiditional conclusions may have been a bit, ah, hasty...
