The lost world of pre-sand Egypt with Andrew Collins
I keep coming back to the idea that the Sphinx may have been carved when the plateau was still wet, its erosion patterns speaking of rain rather than windblown sand. Collins leans into that reading hard, and it pulls the timeline of Egyptian civilization back into a foggy, almost mythical era. I don't know if I buy the full Cygnus mapping, but the obsession with aligning monuments to the sky is one of the most human things about ancient cultures. We still do it with our cities and our towers.
What interests me more is Rostau, the idea that Giza was understood as a threshold, a place where the living could brush against the world of the dead. That framing changes how you walk the plateau. You stop seeing a collection of tombs and start seeing a stage built for cosmic theater. I'd want to know more about the cave systems Collins claims exist beneath the site, and whether any recent ground-penetrating radar work supports him. Until then, I'm happy to hold the mystery loosely and enjoy the speculation.