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The Great Sphinx An Egyptian carving more than 4,000 years old It's possible this huge stone animal was built to impress the pharaoh's cat-obsessed people But Egyptologist Mark Lehner suspects that the Sphinx was also part of something more mysterious The growth of a strange new cult He searches for evidence of this in the temple at the front of the Sphinx The Sphinx temple is a bit of a mystery Because it was stripped of all its outer cladding You know, the casing of the walls, the pillars Everything that would have had an inscription That might have said something directly about what the temple was for But despite being pilfered and vandalized There are just enough clues to show how this temple could have looked 4,500 years ago On the outside, a facade of exquisite granite Shipped in from Aswan In the hallways stood 24 massive pillars To mark the hours of the Egyptian day At the heart of the temple were two sanctuaries aligned to the east and west And a gleaming courtyard of alabaster tiles Surrounded by ten mysterious statues What was the purpose of this lost temple? The Sphinx temple is offline with the Sphinx Shifted slightly to the left Mark believes that this apparent mistake was actually deliberate Could it be the key to decoding the secrets of this strange ruin? The curious thing is that the axis of the temple does not aim directly at the Sphinx It's as though the Sphinx is shoved to the north And the axis of the temple points past it up the western horizon One other feature of the temple layout Might be a clue to what the ancient Egyptians were aiming the axis towards These two sanctuaries, which are in the form of recessed bays and small niches Define the temple axis It's very compelling to think that that's for the rising sun on the east The setting sun on the west Mark believes the Egyptian master builders Would not have done this accidentally He thinks they deliberately pointed the temple axis At the spot on the horizon where the sun would set At a special time of year The Sphinx temple is oriented on this axis So that it is aligned to the setting of the sun And the rising of the sun at the equinoxes As the sun set on the equinox It dropped directly behind the shoulder of the Sphinx And the south side of Khafre's pyramid The shapes of Khafre's pyramid and his Sphinx Would merge to become one perfect silhouette Khafre and his builders were trying to harness The power of the sun And after Khafre died He hoped that this alignment Would be a kind of resurrection machine He was in effect pitching himself To the eternal cycle of the sun So that he too would rise in the afterlife