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erosion that we see all over the body of the Sphinx. In actuality, you have to go back to the Flood
of Genesis to find wet enough conditions to account for weathering of this type and on this scale. It
therefore follows that the Sphinx must have been erected BEFORE the Flood. John Anthony West
clarifies this by saying --

The point is that if the Sphinx was really built by Khafre in the Old Kingdom, and if wind erosion was ca-
pable of inflicting such damage on it in so short a time-span, then other Old Kingdom structures in the
area, built out of the same limestone, ought to show similar weathering. But none do -- you know, abso-
lutely unmistakable Old Kingdom tombs, full of hieroglyphs and inscriptions -- none of them show the
same type of weathering as the Sphinx (quoted in Fingerprints of the Gods, p. 420).

It is obvious that the weathering of the Sphinx (and the walls of its surrounding rock-hewn
enclosure) had not been caused by wind at all but by HEAVY AND CONTINUOUS RAIN some
time before the Old Kingdom came into existence. The body of the Sphinx and the walls of the
Sphinx ditch are deeply weathered and eroded -- several yards thick in some places. The weather-
ing is very deep and gives a rolling and undulating profile that is easily recognizable to stratigra-
phers and paleontologists as having been caused by PRECIPITATION-INDUCED
WEATHERING. Photographs of the Sphinx and the Sphinx enclosure show that "this weathering
takes the distinctive form of a combination of deep vertical fissures and undulating, horizontal
coves -- 'a classic textbook example,' in Schoch's words, 'of what happens to a limestone structure
when you have rain beating down on it' for a long period of time. 'It's clearly rain precipitation that
produced these erosional features' "(ibid., p. 421).

In the TV program Mystery of the Sphinx (NBC-TV, 1993) it was stated that --

Wind/sand erosion presents a very different profile of sharp-edged horizontal channels selectively
scoured out from the softer layers of the affected rock. Under no circumstances can it cause the vertical
fissures particularly visible in the wall of the Sphinx enclosure. These could only have been formed by
water running down the wall, the result of RAIN FALLING IN ENORMOUS QUANTITIES, cascading over
the slope of the Giza plateau and down into the Sphinx enclosure below. "It picked out the weak spots in
the rock," Schoch elaborated, "and opened them up into these fissures -- clear evidence to me as a geolo-
gist that this erosional feature was CAUSED BY RAINFALL!"

Now since these undulating, scalloped coves that run the entire length of the Sphinx's body
are characteristic of rain-induced weathering over relatively long periods of time, they could not
have been introduced by a flood that supposedly covered the highest mountains by 15 cubits! Since
the Sphinx is located at a low elevation it would have been completely covered by water LONG
BEFORE any scouring of the body could have taken place. This clearly points to a REGIONAL or
LOCAL flood that would have been caused by 15 cubits of rain FALLING FROM THE SKY.

Tiahuanaco:

In South America, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, the great city of Tiahuanaco was origi-
nally built as a port when the lake was far wider and more than 100 feet deeper than it is today.
"Vast harbour constructions, piers and dykes (and even dumped cargoes of quarried stone at points
beneath the old waterline), leave no doubt that this must have been the case" (Fingerprints of the
Gods, p. 87).

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