Graham Hancock on egypt: what the evidence says · JRE #2136

What the evidence says 01 / RECORD

The precession of the equinoxes is a real phenomenon: Earth's axis wobbles on a cycle of roughly 25,771 years, so the equinox point slowly drifts against the background stars. That much is settled science. The specific 'Age of Leo' framing is the disputed Bauval and Hancock claim, and even at the level of astronomy it is contested: astronomers Ed Krupp and Tony Fairall calculated the vernal equinox sun around 10,500 BC sat in Virgo, not Leo, and note the lion-shaped zodiac constellations were a later Mesopotamian and Greek convention unknown to Old Kingdom Egyptians. More decisively, the implied conclusion (that the Sphinx is roughly 12,600 years old and marks this epoch) has no archaeological support: the mainstream consensus, backed by the Giza Plateau Mapping Project and quarry and fossil evidence, dates the Sphinx to the reign of Khafre around 2500 BC, about 4,500 years ago. Hancock presents a contested precessional inference as established fact and ties it to a lost-civilization thesis that professional archaeologists reject for lack of positive evidence.