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4 unusual facts about Colin Reader


Colin Reader

His studies of the Sphinx have contributed to the controversial debate regarding a possible older dating of the monument.

Colin Reader is an English geologist with an interest in Ancient Egypt and is also secretary of The Manchester Ancient Egypt Society.

He suggested on the basis of weathering evidence that the Sphinix is older than its commonly accepted 4th dynastic date and instead it and two other buildings on the Giza Plaeau date to the early dynastic or late predynastic period.

Sphinx water erosion hypothesis

Colin Reader, a British geologist, agrees that the suggested evidence of weathering indicates prolonged water erosion.



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