An AI posed a single question about the Sphinx—and its answer may rewrite history. Elon Musk’s Grok was given decades of geological and survey data to analyze who really built the monument, and it returned a stunning verdict.
The standard account of the Great Sphinx is well known: it was built around 4,500 years ago during the Fourth Dynasty, under the rule of Pharaoh Khafre, and its face is his likeness. The statue was carved from a limestone ridge that remained after quarrying for the nearby pyramids, with the body of a lion and the head of a king, serving as a guardian monument within the Giza complex. This version…