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An article chronicles the funny conflict between archaeologists and New Agers over the Sphinx and Pyramids: The New Agers want access to the monuments to test their woolly theories about Atlantis, secret passageways, and undiscovered ancient civilizations.
Poet Muriel Rukeyser envisions Oedipus “old and blinded” asking the Sphinx why he hadn't recognized his own mother.
Not long before this time, between 2575–2550 b.c. , King Kephren had the Sphinx erected in his honor at Giza.
It was, the Sphinx explains, his answer to the riddle: “Man.”
Cynthia's specimen was the big poplar sphinx moth.