Some time after it was excavated, the particular inscription in question flaked off and we now have only drawings. The age of the Sphinx is still being hotly debated and as yet there appears to be no evidence conclusive enough to settle the question. This marvelous object was in existence in the days of Khafre, or Khephren, and it is probable that it is a very great deal older than his reign and that it dates from the end of the archaic period. I believe that to indicate an excavation carried out by that prince, following which, the almost certain proof that the Sphinx was already buried in sand by the time of Khafre and his predecessors. Modern Egyptology text books link the construction of the Sphinx to the 4th dynasty Pharaoh Khafre.
Alternate theories continue to be put forth, mostly from outside academic Egyptology or Archaeology.
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