MMy personal role in this quest began in 1979, when I received in the press service a copy of a book called Serpent in the Sky, by John Anthony West. It was basically a study of the work of a nonconformist Egyptologist by the name of René Schwaller de Lubicz, whose central argument was that Egyptian civilization was a few thousand years older than the historians. Schwaller had spent the latter part of his life demonstrating that the ancient Egyptians possessed "a vast, comprehensive and interrelated system of knowledge." The most exciting passage for me was on page 198:
Schwaller de Lubicz noticed that the strong erosion of the body of the Great Sphinx of Giza is due to the action of water and not sand and wind.