Kevin Sterling: Ozark Atlantis

Cliff Dunning (0:18)

You know, I'm beginning to see that there is good evidence for a kind of a community. And I don't know if this is purposeful or not, but it's beginning to feel like it.

Restrictions and fences put up on research that uncovers evidence of ancient cultures. And one of the big ones that happened almost two and a half decades is the Great Sphinx in Egypt. And when I say resistance to change, resistance to new information, I'm speaking of John Anthony West and Robert Shock, who basically identified the Sphinx as much older. Shock dated the weathered stone that the Sphinx is cut from as being almost 10,000 years earlier than what has been predicted. Now, I find the same evidence in the case of the Sphinx with regards to the head of the Sphinx. And what is amazing for me is I have been using chat and cloud AI systems to analyze the body of the Sphinx and the head. And what keeps coming up is two parts, the body and the head. And it looks like the head that we see today has two major issues. The first issue is that it is cut from stone, or actually my analysis, or AI's analysis, is it was another head that was attached to the original body of the Sphinx. Now, what is amazing is I've been doing testing and asking Chad to put a head on the Sphinx that is proportional to the body. Hey, this is Cliff, your host of Earth Ancients, and I have to tell you, this is fun. AI is a great deal of fun, and I have been using it over the last seven months, not only to complete my book on the Maya, but also working on a second book, tentatively called The Giants of Ancient Egypt, or The Colossi of Ancient Egypt. And one of the early discoveries was this Sphinx issue. Now, Mark Lerner, who most people don't even know or care who this guy is, but he's the American version, it's an Egyptology, he's a version of Zahi Hawass, which the whole world knows. Just Zahi Hawass isn't a very honorable character. He's got a lot of problems associated with him, including at one time selling antiquities and being jailed for it. And then subsequently released because there really was no one to speak for the Egyptological community of Egypt. Anyway, long story short, Mark Lerner wrote a paper on the Sphinx and specifically describes the head as being the same material as the body. Well, how can that be? When you look at the deep, deep weathering of the body of the Sphinx, and you compare it to the head, it's two kinds of stone.

He makes his case in this paper that I discovered with AI. This paper was written in the late 1970s. When you read his assessment, it's crazy. Now, Cliff Dunning is not an Egyptologist. Cliff Dunning is not an archaeologist, but Cliff Dunning is an artist who spent a great deal of time as a sculptor, who studies sculpture in college.

When you look at the Sphinx from a sculptor's point of view, it's a mess.

It's a complete mess. Now, what am I saying here? We're talking about proportionality. The head must fit the body, must fit the legs, must fit the tail, must fit the whole structure. If you look at most of the Sphinx sculptures that we have left to us, they're all beautifully carved and very proportional. Why would these brilliant sculptors create Sphinx with a disproportional head? Well, they wouldn't.

This is a repair job. This is my proposition to the reader in this new book that the head came much later. Now, we don't know how much later, but there's a lot of clues that I've discovered through AI, and one of them is that there's a huge dowel opening on the right side of the head of the Sphinx that held some form of either a dowel or an opening that was used as a plug to port the lower section of this edition. And it also looks like they, and I'm still looking into this, it looks like they put this head on in sections. Well, Lerner wants us to believe it's the same material, the same stone, limestone that was used in the body of the Sphinx. Well, it's not. It's not. And so you have to think, why is this, why is there resistance to the possibility that this is not the original head? And also they're repairing the original body of the Sphinx. It's extremely, extremely old. So the book, The Colossi of Ancient Egypt, is just a fascination of mine. And as you know, if you follow me, these huge multi-ton sculptures are just, I mean, there's nowhere else in the world that you find them. And that's why this book is being developed, because I keep fighting these monstrosities. Excuse me, we were in Tannis earlier this year. And there's so many of these monstrosities laying around. It's like, what is this all about? And it's not easy to carve a block of 100, 200, 500-ton granite into an elegantly proportional sculpture. There's a lot up, there's a lot to it that we are beginning to discover. And so I'm having fun with this. Lots to think about, lots to talk about. But the great sphinx, oh, and by the way, I have a series of photographs you can see that are proportional sphinx bodies and heads on the Facebook page under Earth Ancients, or you can see it on Cliff Dunning, my profile. It's curious because I've had a couple of different Egyptologists say, of course Mark Lerner is correct. He's an Egyptologist. Well, he's not a sculptor, and he doesn't get the fact that the Egyptian sculptors were very astute in their ability to render a perfectly proportional sphinx.