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By Robert Temple, Olivia Temple

Within the Sphinx secret, Robert Temple verifies the life of mystery underground chambers underneath the Sphinx and demonstrates its origins because the Egyptian god of the lifeless, Anubis. He offers eyewitness bills of people that observed the key chambers and went inside of earlier than they have been sealed in 1926. He additionally describes his exploration of a tunnel on the rear of the Sphinx in all likelihood used for acquiring sacred goals. comprises proof exhibiting that the precise dimension and place of the Sphinx have been geometrically decided in terms of the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren, and that it was once a part of a pharaonic resurrection cult.

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"The real mysteries of the Sphinx, either hidden and forgotten, are brilliantly uncovered during this compelling e-book by way of Robert and Olivia Temple. they've got exposed difficult info revealing the manipulation and misinterpretation that dominate this sector of Egyptology. Their use of good facts, textual and photographic, make their case unarguable."

—Michael Baigent, coauthor of Holy Blood, Holy Grail and writer of The Jesus Papers

Shrouded in secret for hundreds of years, the Sphinx of Giza has pissed off many that have tried to find its unique objective. bills exist of the Sphinx as an oracle, as a king's burial chamber, and as a temple for initiation into the airtight Mysteries. Egyptologists have argued for many years approximately no matter if there are mystery chambers beneath the Sphinx, why the head-to-body ratio is out of percentage, and whose face ornaments it.

In The Sphinx secret, Robert Temple addresses the various mysteries of the Sphinx. He provides eyewitness money owed, released over a interval of 281 years, of people that observed the key chambers or even went inside of them prior to they have been sealed in 1926—accounts that were forgotten till the writer rediscovered them. He additionally describes his personal exploration of a tunnel on the rear of the Sphinx, probably used for acquiring sacred divinatory dreams.

Robert Temple finds that the Sphinx was once initially a huge Anubis, the Egyptian jackal god, and that its face is that of a center country pharaoh, Amenemhet II, which was once a later re-carving. additionally, he presents photographic facts of historical sluice gate lines to illustrate that, throughout the previous country, the Sphinx as Anubis sat surrounded via a moat choked with water—called Jackal Lake within the old Pyramid Texts—where spiritual ceremonies have been held. He additionally presents proof that the precise dimension and place of the Sphinx have been geometrically made up our minds with regards to the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren and that it was once a part of a pharaonic resurrection cult.

ROBERT TEMPLE is a traveling professor of the heritage and philosophy of technology at Tsinghua collage in Beijing, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the Egypt Exploration Society, Royal old Society, Institute of Classical reviews, and the Society for the promoting of Hellenic reports. he's the writer of 12 books, together with The Sirius secret, Oracles of the useless, and The Genius of China. He and his spouse, Olivia, additionally translated Aesop: the whole Fables. They dwell in England.