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The Second Sphinx
(lemmy.world)
It would be way too much work to destroy a mountain-sized statue to the point that it is almost completely flat land where the statue used to be. I'm no expert, but my gut tells me this is probably true.
Considering that the pyramids used to be encased in white limestone that was all taken by everyone over the years for building homes, this one of the least crazy ideas I've seen.
Then you have not seen a lot of crazy ideas. The pyramids are mostly still there, they haven't vanished. They are also made of easily-removable stones. The sphinx is one large carved solid rock. The claim is there was a second solid rock sphinx that was razed flat.
It's the difference between claiming the actual fact that a previous London Bridge was disassembled and then reassembled in Arizona is a corresponding fact to the completely false idea that there was a second Mount Rushmore that they had to flatten to the ground so people could get a view of the first Mount Rushmore.
One is plausible (and true in that case). The other is ludicrous. It's absolutely crazy.