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>> Few symbols convey the mysteries of ancient

consciousness more potently than the Great Sphinx of Giza.

Just south of the Great Pyramid, on the West Bank

of the Nile River, this mythical limestone creature

has the body of a lion and the head of a human.

The Sphinx is the oldest known monumental sculpture in Egypt.

According to mainstream scholars,

it was built by ancient Egyptians

during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafre,

between the dates 2558 and 2532 BC.

But in 1992, author and independent Egyptologist,

John Anthony West, claimed that the Great Sphinx of Giza

was not carved in 2,500 BC but 9,000 to 10,000 years earlier,

before Egypt was a desert and even before the dawn of man

as we know it.

While studying the works of 1920s scholar Schwaller

de Lubicz, John Anthony West discovered

that conventional Egyptologists had

overlooked an important detail.

The body of the Sphinx bore distinct markings

of water erosion.

>> Through some friends, I had an introduction to a very

well-known Oxford geologist, and I went into him with a very

simple question.

On the basis of a clear photograph alone,

could he, as a geologist, tell the difference

between weathering by water and weathering by wind and sand.

The answer was cautiously expressed,

as a general rule, yes.

I asked him if he didn't mind if I

play a bit of the trick on him.

And what I did was I took a photograph of the Sphinx,

and I masked off the head and the paws,

and I asked him what did he think

was responsible for that weathering?

And he looked at it a moment, and said, well,

unquestionably, water.

And I stripped the masking tape off.

And he looked at it a minute, and he said, oh.

>> If it was water erosion, then the entire history of ancient

man would have to be rewritten.

The conversation was a controversial subject

the Oxford geologist didn't want to get involved with.

This did little to deter John West from wanting

to solve the mystery.

If the Great Sphinx of Egypt was built

thousands of years earlier than was written in mainstream

history, could the water erosion marks he had examined

shed new light on the creation of the human race?

Determined to find out, John sought other scientists

willing to join his quest.

His search led him to Professor Robert Schoch, a geologist

at Boston University.

>> I first went to see the Sphinx in 1990,

and I noticed immediately that there was a disconnect,

because the weathering and erosion that I saw

on the Sphinx was not compatible with Sahara Desert hyper arid

conditions.

What I was seeing, I was convinced,

was precipitation weathering and erosion, from rainfall,

from water beating down on it.

Now, how do you have that when it's

been Sahara Desert for 5,000 or more years?

So immediately, I saw this anomaly,

and the logical conclusion I had, again,

virtually immediately, was that the Sphinx must go back

to an earlier climatic regime.

>> Can the water erosion marks that John West discovered stand

alone to prove the Sphinx was constructed before 2,500 BC?

In 2008, geoarcheologists Manichev and Parkhomenko,

argued that, through their research

of the analyzation of erosion on the Sphinx,

they figured it actually was part

of a civilization much older.

>> Two Ukrainian geologists believe that the Sphinx,

which is on the edge of a plateau at Giza could be

as much as 800,000 years old.

Why do they believe this?

What they propose is that originally the Mediterranean

Sea extended all the way to the plateau of Giza

and lapped up against the Sphinx to create

the distinctive weathering patterns that we see.

I think that they could be right about the weathering,

but I think that we're talking about the Sphinx

before it was actually carved into what we see today.

There was a rocky promontory or knoll at that site,

which obviously, was later used to carve the Sphinx

and that would have had weathering patterns on it.

And almost certainly, that does date back hundreds of thousands

of years and could well have been weathered by water

at some point in the past, but certainly, that

was not in the recent past.

>> As theories about how old the Sphinx is continue,

Robert Schoch has found his research keeps leading him

further back in time.

Since he first traveled to Giza in 1992,

Professor Robert Schoch's research

has taken his first dating of the Sphinx even further.

His most recent geological and seismic findings

have convinced him that the Great Sphinx could

have been carved as far back as 12,000 years ago,

at the end of the last Ice Age.

>> We know geologically and from stage of ancient climatology,

that prior to about 3,000, what is now Sahara was much more

moist, much more temperate, much more rainfall.

So I concluded that had to go back at least to that earlier

period.

My initial estimate was 5,000 to 7,000 BC.

This was very, very radical at the time.

The Egyptologists were livid about this.

They were saying all kinds of nasty things about me,

calling me a pseudoscientist, because they

said this was absolutely impossible, because there's

no civilization when you go back to 5,000 to 7,000

BC that could construct the Sphinx.

Since then, I've continued my studies.

I've carried on with this.

I've actually re-analyzed the seismic data,

and I'm convinced, at this point,

for a number of technical reasons, that actually

the seismic data suggests that we have to go back

to at least around 10,000 BC.

And this also fits much better, the climatic regime,

and gives enough time for the erosion

and weathering that we're seeing.

>> When could the Sphinx have been exposed to what turns out,

what needs to have been, about 1,000 years of very heavy

rainfall?

There was no rainfall like that in Egypt

in the time of the pharaohs either.

The Giza Plateau was as dry 4,500 years ago as it is today.

And yet, here is a structure that has been heavily weathered

by rainfall, which has fallen on it for a long period of time.

You have to go back, you know, more than 11,500 years.

You have to go back to 12,000 years,

really, to get the kind of climate conditions

in that part of the Sahara that would

have been capable of causing that level of erosion

on the Sphinx.

The rainfall erosion is most visible on the trench

that surrounds the Sphinx.

Nobody bothered to restore that, and there you

can see this undulating profile and cuts through it.

It's classic rainfall-induced weathering.

And the Sphinx's body has been repaired again and again.

It wasn't just in the Old Kingdom it was repaired.

There were more repairs done in the New Kingdom as well.

And, you know, right down into more recent times.

They're still restoring the core body of the Sphinx today.

This, alone, should have alerted archaeologists to the fact

that there's a problem because some

of the most extensive restorations of the Sphinx

when blocks were applied to that rock-hewn core

body of the Sphinx to repair damage, some of those date

from the Old Kingdom.

They date from 2,500 BC.

Now, if you've made your Sphinx in 2,500 BC, what on Earth

are you doing restoring it massively in 2,000?

It should be pristine.

>> Gregg Braden adds another layer to the dating

of the Sphinx.

>> When we look at the mystery of the Sphinx and the Giza

Plateau, in the traditional dating of only 4,000 years,

where that no longer makes sense is the erosion on the Sphinx

has now been proven by Robert Schoch to be fluvial erosion

rather than aeolian erosion.

And fluvial means vast amounts of water

moving quickly over long periods of time,

where aeolian erosion, that would be wind,

blowing and eroding over long periods of time.

Robert Schoch showed, beyond any reasonable doubt,

that it is water erosion that has created the Sphinx.

His findings were accepted by AAPG, the American Association

of Petroleum Geologists.

They looked at the evidence, and they said, of course,

this makes perfect sense.

We have no problem with this.

The historians have a huge problem,

because the last time there were vast amounts of water

moving quickly over long periods of time

is when the ice melted from the last Ice Age,

and that is now being dated, in that part of Egypt,

between 7,000 and 9,000 years before present.

So I think the evidence strongly supports

that the Sphinx was in place when that water was melting.

What it doesn't account for is the Ice

Age was there for 20,000 years.

Was the Sphinx built before the ice happened and subject

to the erosion, or was the Sphinx

built while the ice was in place?

And we don't know the answer to that yet.

>> Some researchers suggest that the Sphinx could have been

built during the precessional cycle,

even before the current one, giving it the date of 36,000

BC.

>> John Anthony West's view is that actually it's not marking

12,500 years ago.

It's marking the precessional cycle

before that, the previous Age of Leo,

which would be 25,920 years before that.

The Age of Leo recurs every 25,920 years.

So the astronomy doesn't absolutely

commit us to the date of 12,500 years ago.

But what does, I think, commit us to the date of 12 and 1/2

thousand years ago, is the geology.

The way that the Sphinx is measured

and the fact that that was a very rainy period in Egypt.

If you wind back the ancient skies to 10,500 BC,

you go over to Giza, and you find

that two constellations are modeled on the ground there.

One is the constellation of Orion,

the belt stars of Orion in the positioning of the three

great pyramids, and the other is the constellation of Leo,

with the Great Sphinx gazing due east.

And the strangest thing is that you again get a lock,

not in 2,500 BC, when Giza is supposed to have been created,

none of it works then.

You have to go back 12,500 years to 10,500 BC

to get Leo locking perfectly with the Sphinx at dawn

on the spring equinox.

It's the Age of Leo.

It's as though the lion-bodied Sphinx

is looking at its own celestial counterpart in the sky.

And the constellation of Orion due south

on the meridian in exactly the pattern of the three pyramids

on the ground.

And that only happens 12,500 years ago.

>> Could the Sphinx and the pyramids have been built

at the same time?

If so, could the ancient civilization that built it

be marking a very important time for our current human race?

>> Now, with modern computer software,

we can look at the ancient skies in any period we wish.

It's interesting when we switch from geology to astronomy,

and we start looking at the Sphinx and the pyramids

as astronomically-connected monuments.

And we can't do otherwise, because the Sphinx,

as I mentioned, is perfectly aligned on due east, perfect.

That's the work of people who are studying the sky.

>> The temple has to be a mirror image of the cosmos.

In other words, you have to represent what you're actually

looking at.

A great example, of course, is the Sphinx.

Looks at its mirror image on the horizon of the spring equinox,

10,500 BC.

Boom.

>> Robert Schoch challenges the conventional explanation behind

the Sphinx being constructed in 2,500 BC.

>> It's been claimed that the face of the Sphinx is the face

of the pharaoh Khafre or Chephren.

So that would date it to 2,500 BC But all of this

is really very circumstantial.

I think there's a very good possibility

that the Sphinx was not a Sphinx originally, but it was a lion.

So a lion's body with a lion's head.

That the human head is a reconstruction or recarving.

Maybe the head's been recarved more than once.

But if you think about as a lion, during the Age of Leo,

at the end of the last Ice Age, circa 10,000 or so BC,

you had the Sphinx facing it's, essentially,

own image in the sky on the vernal equinox,

and I think this was something that may have

been incredibly significant.

>> What would be the purpose of such a marker at the Giza

Plateau?

Is there an unseen power that generations later

tried to capture?

>> The idea of a lion image as an important sacred notion

in a solar-worshipping culture is completely understandable.

First of all, the constellations in the heavens,

so we're looking upward for inspiration.

And the image of a lion is a very strong, courageous, noble

quality.

So to put the head of a pharaoh on the body of a lion

is to acknowledge that the pharaoh has

these great, powerful qualities.

This is carved out of bedrock.

Not only is the leader's energy united

with the image of a lion, it is also united with the Earth.

So we have powerful imagery of integration going

on in the Great Sphinx of Giza.

>> Could there be a different kind of power we haven't yet

been able to understand attached with the Sphinx and the Giza

Plateau?

>> Well, it's bizarre.

I mean, these are gigantic monuments,

left totally uninscribed, not even

the name of the supposed pharaoh.

No architect's name, nothing.

It doesn't have hieroglyphs.

It doesn't have inscriptions.

But they do speak, once you understand

that the language that is being incorporated

or the designer, who used language,

used mathematics and astronomy.

>> If the Sphinx was a powerful image built only to reflect its

magnificence from the surface of the Earth to its celestial

home, why would it be uninscribed?

Why would the creators not explain its purpose?

That answer might lie below its feet.

Robert Schoch described how his investigations led him

to another significant discovery.

>> Below the Sphinx, I was looking for subsurface

weathering features, mineralogical changes.

We also found a number of anomalies.

One of the anomalies, probably the most

important and significant, is under the left paw

of the Sphinx.

And it is, for--

what we can tell from the seismic,

I'm quite convinced that it is a cavity, but not

a natural cavity, an artificial cavity or chamber

under the left paw.

Our initial analysis indicates that there is something in it.

So it's not an empty cavity.

>> John Anthony West and Robert Schoch,

in the very brief period that they had access to the Sphinx,

they ran sidescan sonar survey all around it.

And what was discovered beneath the left forepaw of the Sphinx,

down at a depth of about 30 or 40 feet into the bedrock,

beneath the left forepaw of the Sphinx

is a very large, clearly man-made chamber.

As soon as the Egyptian authorities discovered

what they were really doing, they threw them off the site,

and they weren't allowed to continue with their work.

Do perhaps the Egyptian authorities

or the Egyptian archaeologists and their colleagues

at Western Archeology, do they perhaps already know?

I mean, I'm not a big conspiracy theorist,

but there have subsequently been drilling and investigation

projects under the Sphinx, which have been passed off

as being to do with clearing groundwater

from under the Sphinx.

But I wonder if that's what they were really doing.

I don't think we're being told the whole truth about what

is happening at Giza.

>> If that might be true, could the Great Sphinx be guarding

human behavior recorded for thousands or millions of years?

>> One thing I would anticipate finding,

if there is something in those chambers beneath the Sphinx,

is the records of those earlier civilizations that existed

on this planet.

Plato, the Greek philosopher, said that the Greek lawmaker

Solon once went to Egypt, and he was speaking with one

of the Egyptian high priests.

And the Egyptian high priest asked

about the history of the Greek people,

and Solon said, in the beginning, humans were created.

Then, there was a big flood, a big catastrophe.

And after that, they were created again.

And the Egyptian priest began laughing.

He explained to Solon that actually, there

have been many devastations in the long history of the world

and the earth has been repopulated again and again

and again over the course of many millions of years.

And he said, you Greeks just remember the last one,

but there have been many before that.

And he said to Solon you've lost the records of these earlier

histories.

The Egyptian priest said, we have those records

of those earlier histories.

>> These things that are still there underground were so vast

that he was really perplexed, and he asked the Egyptian

priest who was taking him around, who built these things?

And their reply to him was, they were

built by the Crocodile Kings.

Now, that might be a perfect definition

of what the Anunnaki were, because we

do see a lot of depictions of them

with reptilian features and things like that.

It may be, at one point, whoever built that chamber and hid what

I believe might be the Hall of Records

of the Egyptian priesthood, then chose to actually bury that up.

We might find writings from them,

tablets, ways of using their knowledge,

that they knew we wouldn't be able to get to

until a certain point in our evolution,

where we would be able to get down to these chambers

and pull out what was there.

>> If there really is a chamber guarding the secrets

of humanity, why haven't we been allowed to have it?

Graham Cere explains that the Sphinx

tests the soul before it can be embodied in the great knowing.

>> The Sphinx, to me, represents kind of the holder of esoteric

knowledge and the mystery of existence.

It's sort of the watcher at the gates to heaven.

He tests the soul on their merit before they're

able to re-enter the garden.

Sort of like the kerubim, who, with the flaming swords,

guard the entrance to Eden to make sure

that the soul is pure enough to re-enter.

So that's one aspect of the Sphinx.

To me, it also kind of represents

the integration of angelic natures with human natures.

>> If the Sphinx does mark the gateway to secret knowledge

about our planet left by an ancient high civilization,

then could it be that, by design,

it is intended to remain dormant until modern civilization is

ready to see the universe differently?

Graham Hancock suggests this question is partially

answered by understanding the symbolism in Egyptian artworks.

>> The ancient Egyptians had a, I think,

a beautiful way of looking at human life.

This was a forgiving culture.

They understood human frailty.

We are not perfect.

We do not enter life perfect.

We are going to make mistakes, and the question is,

do we learn from those mistakes?

What do we do with the lessons that duality has to teach us?

Do we integrate those lessons into our life subsequently,

or do we just ignore them and carry on as before?

>> Now, these sites are very controversial, all of them are,

because they force historians to rethink the traditional story.

We would begin to look at a cyclic model of civilization,

rather than the linear model that says civilization

began 5,000 years ago.

It opens the door to explanations

to many of the things that look simply mysterious to us

and make no sense at all, such as the discovery

of entire cities under the surface of the ocean,

that we find in multiple places throughout the world.

>> If the great ancient knowledge in the chamber below

the paw of the Sphinx is inaccessible,

perhaps the same knowledge may exist in a different location

or even in a different frequency.

Healer and author, Sonia Grace, describes a mystical encounter

meeting the ancient solar deity Sekhmet during a remote vision.

>> When I spirit traveled to the Great Sphinx,

it was back in time.

My guides took me, and we arrived around 15,000 BC.

We were met by Sekhmet herself.

She was standing there.

She's huge.

She's, like, 20 feet tall.

She's enormous, and she invited us inside and took us down,

going into the earth, a long tunnel, this deep tunnel,

passageway.

It went this way, it went that way, it went this way again,

and it opened out into a huge room.

And she said, this was the portal for my people.

She says my people came here long before the Egyptian gods.

She said this Sphinx was a carving of a lion.

It was not the dog Anubis.

It was a lion.

And she said, it's because we come from the Leo

constellation, and it was created

as a site for her people, meaning X marks the spot.

This is the portal.

So this is where her people would literally

transport to where they were from in the Leo constellation.

>> If the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid are just the tip

of the iceberg of our understanding of humanity

on this planet, could their existence be a reminder to dig

deeper?

But when, if ever, will this knowledge

be available to all mankind?

>> For all its technology and all its progress and all

the amazing stuff we have, we live in a very fractured,

very dangerous world right now, where the whole of human

achievement could be put at jeopardy by, for example,

a massive nuclear war.

We have the toys to do that, to bring humanity

back to the Stone Age in a matter of days,

and it's possible that we could do so.

But we don't really know why we're here or what we're doing.

We have an illusion about what it is,

and that illusion is locked deep in the past.

That's where it began, and we need

to recover the truth about ourselves.

>> Could the knowledge preserved be by the clan of Osiris?

Is there a link between the Egyptian gods

and Anki's mission to help mankind's advancement

towards a higher culture?

Could that specific knowledge be below the Sphinx?

>> The Great Pyramid, in particular,

contains mathematical, a sort of mathematical code.

We know for sure, for example, that astronomy and mathematics

was used.

The question is why?

It's the sort of-- well, it's the universal language.

If ever we are contacted or we contact extraterrestrials

somewhere else in the cosmos, the only way we can communicate

is through mathematics and astronomy.

Astronomy would give them location, sort of a GPS,

if you like, and mathematics would

be the dialogue between us.

So this monument is speaking ET, if you like.

It's actually speaking a universal language.

We have to come to terms with that,

and we have to ask the question, is it

something that developed purely earthbound or is it a contact?

The questions are legitimate today.

>> Maybe once we tap into a different dimension,

we will be able to read the code.

Some believe there are locations on the planet that open portals

to another dimension of our current reality.

>> What we do know is, in places like the Cairo Museum in Egypt,

a number of artifacts have been found from sites,

such as Sukara, for example, that scientists simply cannot

explain.

>> Up next, could there have been portals on Earth where

the code is revealed?