Pseudoarchaeology on the Joe Rogan Experience
2 fact-checked claims across 1 episode · Sep 2020
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“the last time you have that heavy rainfall in Egypt is the period that geologists call the Younger Dryas, roughly between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. So the b…”
Hancock asserts that erosion patterns on the Sphinx enclosure prove the monument dates to the Younger Dryas period roughly 12,000 years ago.
“The notion that the Great Sphinx is 12,500 years old, which is a notion based on the erosion patterns on the body of the Sphinx, is utterly unacceptable to Egy…”
Hancock claims the Great Sphinx's erosion patterns show it is 12,500 years old, a date rejected by mainstream Egyptology.