
Who Really Built The Sphinx?
The Great Sphinx of Giza is officially dated to the reign of Pharaoh Khafre around 2500 BC, but this History Hit documentary follows the geologists and researchers who argue the erosion patterns on its body point to a far older origin, thousands of years before dynastic Egypt existed. The film examines the weathering evidence stone by stone, alongside carbon dating disputes and the ancient tunnels beneath the Giza plateau that keep fueling revisionist theories. It then shifts to the Levant, joining the search for King Solomon's palaces at the site of Armageddon (Tel Megiddo), weighing what the excavated ruins there actually support against the biblical account. Archaeologists and geologists lay out competing readings of the same physical evidence, and the film treats both the Sphinx's age and Solomon's building projects as open questions rather than settled history. It is a tour through contested chronology, built on site visits and expert interviews rather than a single confident verdict.