A statue of Anubis found in the so-called treasury of the tomb of Tutankhamun

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Read Robert's article 'The Sphinx Mystery - the Forgotten Origins of the Sactuary of Anubis' from the Spring 2009 edition of The Watkins Review.[PDF 2MB] 'What Was The Sphinx?' article by Robert Temple published as the cover story in the January -February 2009 edition of New Dawnmagazine. [PDF 3.1MB] 'The Meaning of the Sphinx' article by Robert Temple published as the cover story in the Spring 2009 edition of Freemasonry Today [PDF 1MB]

	fig6.36a.	The southeast corner of the Sphinx Pit continues in this fashion briefly towards the south. At the left of the photo is the northwest corner of the Valley Temple. A carefully-shaped ‘cubicle’ with a base is carved out of the bedrock here, seen more closely in Figures 6.41 and 6.42. To the right, beyond the iron gate, lies the Sphinx Moat. Water erosion patterns may be seen in the stone at the centre of the photo, of a swirling nature, due to the fact that it was at this point that the water rushed in or out of the Sphinx Moat when the sluice gates were opened. Incoming water from the Nile Inundation would have rushed up against this stone barrier, swirled, and drained downwards and to the right in order to enter the Sphinx Moat, precisely as this swirling pattern indicates.
	fig6.42a.	The eastern end of the base of the ‘cubicle’ below the Valley Temple. We can see that someone felt impelled to chisel away from the bedrock a bit of extra room for the bottom step here, and did not bother to smooth it.