00:00.00 archpodnet Hello and welcome back to the pseudo archeology podcast episode 110 and we have been discussing the water erosion hypothesis and the great sphinx right? This idea that the sphinx is top secretly. Ten Thousand or thirteen thousand years old and I've been keeping this from you the whole time. Well I have yes I've been keeping it from you the whole time I secretly have gone over there doing my studies at night and well you know I'm just lying like. Come on. You know I just it's so funny you guys I I don't know where to take it sometimes it's it's so foolish at its base and as we've done this. Ah. Deep dive into the water erosion hypothesis and and realize it was started by a french mystic isn't that enough just right there like it was started by a mystic and it can it just be kind of a funny story that we say on the side and move on with our day but we can't you know? Um I think. There's a quote that I really like from another archaeologist that I think really kind of sums this up and this is by an archeologist name. Um Mark Lenner and he has worked in Egypt for for decades. He says you don't overthrow egyptian history based on 1 phenomenon like a weathering profile. 01:30.40 archpodnet That is how pseudoscience is done not real science there you go perfect. You know as we do archeology. There's always things we find that might be a little off kilter or at first to not seem to make 100% sense you know I've experienced this in my own career where you where you? um, you might find again. 1 thing that that seems to not quite fit but we can't cherry pick like that we have to go with the other 99 things that do fit perfectly right and we'll be able to explain away. The last one I think that as we look back I think you can explain away the water erosion idea very easily right? It's not even hard that that's the ah, another thing I thought I thought this was going to be harder. You know I thought there was going to be some other side where I could go. Yeah well you know it it could have taken 10000? No it couldn't have just didn't you know um again and my my own experiences really informed me in this I've seen limestone with a different you know, looking very weathered. Um, because it was a very poor quality and I could see how when you see really crappy limestone. You would just naturally think oh that one's been out in the elements a lot longer than that other piece that looks pristine. It's like no, it's because it's crappier. Quality. 03:03.72 archpodnet Um. 03:08.79 archpodnet In terms of the other 99 facts that would point to the sphinx being made at the same time as the great pyramids. Ah I mean you guys can probably list these with me first. 03:24.52 archpodnet Um, in order to make something like the sphinx. You need a large organized population. So this was not just a small group of hunter gatherers. This is a large population that had farming in order to get surplus that could. Feed and house construction workers and support an entire support system where you know hundreds of people could work on this over a long period of time with an overarching plan right? that just demands. A large complex society for something of that scale. It just does right? and you don't get that at any other time until in that area until dynastic Egypt right? So the idea that it happened ten thousand years ago is is silly. It's ludicrous going back to that idea of this long vanished super civilization. There is no evidence for that none this idea that it got washed away at the end of the last ice age one. Ah, one of my big questions for them. Would be didn't people in this master civilization of ten thousand years ago didn't they build cities anywhere besides on the coast no didn't like Denver no just l a and Miami that's it. You know it just it makes. 04:55.43 archpodnet No sense, you guys nothing and and so this whole foolish house of cards and really, it's ultimately to prop up atlantis I swear and it feels funny and weird. You're like why I got to prop prop up atlantis but that's what it is underneath. And I think there's also it it works in lockstep with the good old creationism debate so you have this idea that there were atlanteans as this you know master. Race of people who taught everyone else what to do and they were the first see because it's a young earth right? And so it kind of wraps around with some of that biblical stuff where we're now arguing that the earth itself is very very young. So so those groups that have no facts at all on their side kind of work together in a really um vague positive relationship because even if you if you try and push them down on specifics. It starts to even not make sense. Even their foolish ideas. Don't go together. It's like well if you want to be creationist about it then the earth is only 6000 years old you know up, but the atlanteans are 10000 or now Graham Hancock's going with 13 you know it's just it's a waste of everyone's time. 06:28.50 archpodnet Isn't it so much more fun to talk about the dream stella isn't it so much more fun to talk about kafre and the fourth Dynasty you know I love those stories I go all day on that you know I don't want to talk about french mystics and pseudo geologists. 06:46.58 archpodnet Although I kind of want to be a pseudo geologist that looks like limestone. No, it doesn't wait isn't that basalt coming out of that volcano in the form of lava. No no, no, it's Dragon's blood ah okay, okay when can we stop giving media time to all this you know and again it does keep me employed I get that but I just wish there was a way out of this conundrum. You know. I wish we didn't have to make these terrible deals with the devil where like the only way to have a moment to talk about real archeology is to talk about all this fake stuff. You know I would love just a solid entertaining exciting. Funny. Show on real archeology wouldn't that be great I would dig that I know it's possible. You know I've never really seen it be done though you know I think I think they cracked the code in astronomy because again I think Neil Degrasse Tyson's cosmos is awesome. I think that is the gold standard that show is is interesting. It's exciting. It's dynamic. They use all different kinds of media in order to tell the story. There's cartoons right? it's it's um, just excellently done I can't I can't give that 1 enough props. 08:20.31 archpodnet We need that kind of Cosmo Show in archeology and until we get that we're dealing with the erosion hypothesis and with that. Oh. Talk to you guys next time my friends. 08:48.95 archpodnet Actually I'm going to do the end 1 more time. It might not be as good just pick whichever everyone is better. But I'm going to do though I'm just goingnna say water erosion hypothesis. Um. 09:03.31 archpodnet But until then we're stuck with the water erosion hypothesis and with that I'll see you guys next time.