Rewriting the History of The Great Sphinx
Published by Archaeopress on 16 January 2026, my second book is the product of nearly 30 years of research into the archaeology and geology of The Great Sphinx of Giza.
The Great Sphinx has guarded the Giza Plateau in
Egypt for many thousands of years. Conventionally Egyptologists consider this monument to be about 4500 years old, built at the same time as Giza’s great
pyramids. There is however, very little direct evidence to support this date,
and there are a range of other important questions, such as what the concept of
the human-headed lion meant for the people who built it, that currently remain
largely unanswered.
This book challenges the established history of the Giza
Necropolis to present the only comprehensive, evidence-led account of the
history and original meaning of The Great Sphinx that has been published to date. After examining both the
archaeological and geological evidence, the book concludes that The Great
Sphinx and a number of other monuments at Giza, were built early in the
Pharaonic Era, in the period before Egypt’s first pyramids. Perhaps more
surprisingly, the book also concludes that The Great Sphinx was not the first ritual
monument to be built at Giza, with evidence for activity that extends
the history of the site back into the period before the first pharaohs.
Rewriting the History of the Great Sphinx is available from Archaeopress (paperpback with free PDF download) and from Amazon (paperback).