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Credentials: PhD Geology and Geophysics, Yale University; Associate Professor, Boston University
American geologist and Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at the College of General Studies, Boston University, whose Sphinx water erosion hypothesis ignited one of the most enduring controversies in archaeology. In 1991, his geological analysis of weathering patterns on the Great Sphinx enclosure led him to propose that the monument was significantly older than the conventional date of...
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