This is a story from 13,000 years ago.
Sphinx ’s age mystery! Has existed 13,000 years ago and was flooded? What major events have led to the world entering a great ice age? It was earlier than the pyramid, who built the "Gobekli" Stonehenge in Turkey?
New Fairy Wood Period
At that time, due to an emergency, the global temperature suddenly dropped sharply, and the Arctic glacier invaded the south, resulting in an ice age of about 1,300 years. This period is called the New Fairy Wood Period. Before this, global temperatures were gradually rising.
Then why is it called the New Fairy Wood Period? Because scientists' research on Greenland glacier found that pollen from a plant originally grown in the cold zone of northern Europe at that time could be found in low-latitude areas during this period, indicating that the climate was cold at that time, which led to a large invasion of the species in the south.
During this period, the temperature in Greenland, North America plummeted by about 20 degrees Celsius, causing the extinction of most giant fauna groups in North America, and the rapid demise of the Clovis culture of the Mayans at that time. In Europe, the temperature in southern Britain has also dropped by more than 8 degrees Celsius. At first, people thought that the New Fairy Woods only occurred in North America and Europe, but as research deepened, evidence of temperature drop during this period was also found elsewhere in the world. For example, the biosilicon sediments in the South China Sea of China and the isotopes of oxygen-18 (18O) in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau glacier faithfully recorded the abnormal cold weather during this period, indicating that this is a period of the world-wide ice age.
So what happened 13,000 years ago?
The scientific community tends to believe that at that time, there was a comet, or an asteroid, with a diameter of more than 4 kilometers, hitting the earth, and debris hit North America, South America, Europe and West Asia, causing great floods and rapid climate changes, which later led to a thousand-year-long ice age. This event is also called New Fairy Wood Event .
11694, the famous astronomer Edmund Halley, who calculated the orbit of the Halley Comet , and predicted that it would return again every 75 years-76 years, proposed that a comet we have not yet known has caused a huge flood in history.
In 2007, at the American Geophysical Union Conference held at Acapulco , Felstone, West and about 20 other scientists formally proposed the hypothesis that comets hit the Earth for the first time. Later, the expert group published a related paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
In 2013, a scientific research report pointed out that the abnormal concentration of platinum was detected in the Greenland ice core, which was about 12,900 years ago, which was hundreds of times that of the normal state. Scientists believe that the anomaly comes from the impact of a large iron meteorite with a diameter of about 800 meters. In 2017, researchers detected abnormal platinum concentrations at 11 other sites on the mainland, and their history can also be traced back to the New Fairy Wood Period. As of 2019, researchers have detected abnormal platinum concentrations in the same period at 28 locations around the world, and the distribution is very wide. This shows that if a comet really hit the earth back then, the disaster caused may be global.
The mystery of the age of the Sphinx
And there are a lot of hot discussions about this prehistoric flood and climate abnormalities. The most eye-catching one is the topic related to the Egyptian Sphinx.
The Sphinx is located near the pyramid of Kavra . It is one of the most famous statues in the world, but there are still unsolved mysteries about its builder and the time of construction until now. Because there is no text describing it in any of the ancient Egyptian inscriptions that have been discovered so far, there is nothing.Even its name, Sphinx , was given by the ancient Greeks 2,000 years ago, because this statue has the body of a lion like the legendary Sphinx of Ancient Greek .
Although everyone thinks that the Sphinx stands next to the pyramid of Kavra, it was naturally built by Phara of Kavra, so it should be built around 2500 BC. However, in 1857, Mariet, the founder of the Cairo Museum, discovered a monument, which was probably established around 500 BC by the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt. The inscription tells the story of Pharaoh Kavra discovering the Sphinx was buried in the yellow sand. So the Sphinx should be older than the Kraft Pyramid. How long can it last?
Sphinx has very obvious wavy concave patterns. Geologists have always believed that this trace is caused by wind and sand erosion. However, this statement cannot explain why these concave lines do not appear on the statue's face. In the 1950s, some Egyptologists suggested that these dents were traces that had been eroded by floods, because the water only flooded the body, so the face was not corroded. In the 1990s, Robert Schuch, a geologist at Boston University in the United States, echoed this statement and deduced the time of the flood to the end of the last ice age, which was almost the era of the New Fairy Wood Period we just introduced.
is actually not just in Egypt, but in the distant North American , geologist Harembretz also discovered a mysterious corrugated landform on the Colombian Plateau at an altitude of about 1,500 meters. He believed that these may be caused by a devastating flood, but because the water source cannot be explained, how big can the flood be able to flood the 1,500-meter-high plateau? So the academic community at that time did not recognize his statement. But Bretz was not discouraged. He spent 30 years publishing 30 papers until 1965 when he finally won the debate with more than 30 doubters. In 1974, the satellite image made the flood say finally confirmed. Five years later, 97-year-old Bretz received the Penrose Medal awarded by the American Geological Society , which is the highest honor of the American Geological Society. The award speech said: "Although the flood has been controversial for a long time, a photo taken by a satellite 900 kilometers above the head has provided clear evidence for the scope and nature of this prehistoric disaster."
No matter what, if the Sphinx was really flooded for a long time more than 10,000 years ago, then this brings a very important problem, because everyone remembers that humans were still in the Stone Age , using stone tools, wrapped in two animal skins, chasing wild animals everywhere. How could it be possible to have the tools and the ability to build a huge statue like the Sphinx? You should know that it is more than 70 meters long and 19 meters wide, and is a giant as high as 6 or 7 floors.
Gobecli Stonehenge
Someone said that as long as you recognize the existence of prehistoric civilization , it is not impossible. Our current high-tech modern civilization has developed in just over 200 years. With such a long history of 4.6 billion years on Earth, how can we not develop a few highly civilized civilizations like this?
Speaking of this, let’s take a look at the remains of another prehistoric civilization - the Gbekli Stonehenge in Türkiye.
Stonehenge is located nearly ten kilometers outskirts of Urfa City in eastern Türkiye. It was discovered by a Kudian shepherd in 1994. In 1995, German archaeologist Klaus Smit presided over the excavation operation and identified that the stonehenge has a history of at least 12,000 years and is one of the earliest civilization remains discovered by mankind on Earth.
Smit's archaeological team has so far unearthed 45 rectangular or T-shaped boulders, which are circled 5 to 10 feet apart. Most of the stones are carved with wild boars, ducks, long snakes, crayfish and lions from the hunting era.One of the huge rocks carved a group of mysterious portraits, including an vulture , a wolf, a scorpion and a snake. Since its discovery, no scholar has been able to crack the meaning of this set of pictures. The answer was not solved until recently.
On June 28, 2021, the "Science Focus" column of the BBC BBC introduced the research results of the team of Martin Sweetman, an archaeological expert at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and believed that the Gbecquere Stonehenge was an ancient observatory. The different creatures on these stone carvings actually represent different constellations. Among them are Sagittarius, Libra , Scorpio, Ophiohu , Jackal , Pisces, Gemini and Virgo. Because of the precession, the positions of constellations appear in the sky in different eras are different. The relative position of these constellations on the stone can correspond to the starry sky in 10,950 BC, which is about 13,000 years ago. Other symbols on the stone carvings include a headless man and a suspected shock wave in the sky, which seems to describe a catastrophic event. Dr. Sweetman analyzed that this record should be the phenomenon of a comet hitting the earth at that time. He said, "This major cosmic disaster seems to have been commemorated on the huge stone pillars of the Gbekli Stonehenge."
So 13,000 years ago, who liked to observe the celestial phenomena at night, could clearly divide the constellations, what kind of developed civilization did the Turks have, and how did they survive this disaster?
Sometimes I feel that for the vast universe, our human civilization is like a little grass on the earth, withering and flourishing every year. As winter goes and spring comes, the new grass may not know what kind of glory this land has ever had, but history will never disappear because it is forgotten.
