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  "title": "Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations",
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    "en": "Robert M. Schoch's 1999 book (Harmony) consolidates his geological argument for the redating of the Great Sphinx of Giza on the basis of weathering patterns. Schoch, a geologist at Boston University, has argued since the early 1990s that the Sphinx's substantial rain-erosion features indicate a date significantly earlier than the conventional Old Kingdom attribution (c. 2500 BCE) — possibly as early as the Pre-Dynastic period or the late Pleistocene. The specific claims about the Sphinx remain contested in academic Egyptology; the broader argument about pre-Flood civilization places Schoch within the catastrophist-civilization tradition."
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    "Antediluvian"
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  "publish_date": "1999",
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