Scientists offer evidence to support possible Great Sphinx origin story

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1 dead after multi-vehicle crash along I-10 in New Orleans East occurred amid super fog. Get the details.The Great Sphinx of Giza is considered one of the largest single-stone statues on Earth. The sculpture, located near modern-day Cairo, is seen in October 2007.

“Our findings offer a possible ‘origin story’ for how Sphinx-like formations can come about from erosion,” said senior study author Leif Ristroph, an associate professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,The team behind the study, which the release said had been accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review Fluids, created clay-model— a natural landform of compact sand that occurs from the wind in exposed desert regions — and washed the formations...

Within the desert, there are yardangs that exist that naturally look like seated or lying animals with raised heads, Ristroph told CNN. “Some of them look so much like a seated lion, or a seated cat, that they’re sometimesWhile the Great Sphinx of Giza has its mysteries — what it originally looked like and why it was made — it is believed that the 66-foot-tall statue was carved

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