Ancient Astronomy Around the World - The Stones and the Stars: Building Scotland's Newest Megalith - page 34

F IG . 3.3 The Sphinx with the pyramids of Mycerinus at left , Chephren
behind and Khufu (Cheops) at right
F IG . 3.4 The Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops)
F IG . 3.5 The three pyramids of the Giza plateau. Vistamorph TM photos by
Chris O'Kane
the configuration of an earlier 'First Time' around 10,500 b.c., and
that the Sphinx dates back to it [ 33 ] . That takes us into arguments
about the age of the Sphinx [ 34 ], and leads them to postulate a
world-spanning civilization otherwise unknown to us - issues
outside the scope of this topic.)