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The water erosion theory is poorly supported and the orthodoxy is supported by an absolute mountain of corroborating evidence. Remember the great sphinx is part of a massive mortuary complex and we have decades of scholarship documenting all of it. Including the quarry that sourced the building material and written records of the dynasties that produced the work. The notion that it was somehow preexisting from a culture that the Egyptians knew nothing about and who left absolutely no other traces despite having the sophistication to organizing a massive public artwork strains credulity. It's not fully impossible but it's an extraordinary claim and it requires extraordinary proof and what we have is the opinion of a few self-promoters.