Although both the reading and listening passage are about the geological and archeological evidence that determine the date that the Sphinx wax built, yet the two passages are in many way polar opposites. The writer states that the Sphinx was built in the Old Kingdom period, whereas the professor claims are entirely different.
To begin with, as mentioned in the reading passage, the techniques that were employed to construct the Sphinx match the ones that was commonly in the Old Kingdom period. However, the professor’s argument makes a clear distinction; she says the Sphinx was built through multiple stages and layers. To be specific, she claims that the construction began 100 years before and the inner layer of the Sphinx predates the reading
To begin with, as mentioned in the reading passage, the techniques that were employed to construct the Sphinx match the ones that was commonly in the Old Kingdom period. However, the professor’s argument makes a clear distinction; she says the Sphinx was built through multiple stages and layers. To be specific, she claims that the construction began 100 years before and the inner layer of the Sphinx predates the reading