Historys.Greatest.Mysteries.S06E17.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH_track3_[eng] Subtitles

At 00:00:02,000, Character said: [dynamic music]
[transitions clacking]

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At 00:00:03,542, Character said: - It rises from the sands
of the Egyptian desert,

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At 00:00:07,042, Character said: seeming to guard the
Great Pyramids of Giza.

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At 00:00:10,000, Character said: But surprisingly little is known

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At 00:00:12,042, Character said: about this great wonder
of the ancient world.

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At 00:00:15,458, Character said: - How could ancient
Egyptians 4,500 years ago

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At 00:00:20,958, Character said: sculpt a statue as
mighty as the Sphinx?

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At 00:00:26,125, Character said: - It's just an amazingly
monumental [laughing] structure.

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At 00:00:29,500, Character said: But it's silent.

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At 00:00:30,792, Character said: It doesn't tell us exactly
everything we need to know.

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At 00:00:34,333, Character said: - For thousands of years,

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At 00:00:36,125, Character said: the Sphinx has guarded
its many secrets.

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At 00:00:39,542, Character said: - The prevailing view

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At 00:00:40,667, Character said: is that you had human workers

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At 00:00:42,417, Character said: carving it away to make this.

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At 00:00:44,333, Character said: Now another theory comes along

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At 00:00:45,875, Character said: that the bulk of it wasn't
even done by human beings.

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At 00:00:49,917, Character said: - Now, we'll explore
the top theories

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At 00:00:53,000, Character said: surrounding the origins

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At 00:00:54,542, Character said: and purpose of this
mysterious monument.

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At 00:00:57,708, Character said: - Was the Sphinx built
by the same person

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At 00:01:00,708, Character said: that killed his brother
to become the pharaoh?

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At 00:01:04,375, Character said: - It could be that the Sphinx

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At 00:01:06,208, Character said: is part of a celestial map.

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At 00:01:09,542, Character said: - In 1987, a team
of researchers

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At 00:01:12,208, Character said: think they've found
hidden secret chambers

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At 00:01:14,542, Character said: that were located
under the Sphinx.

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At 00:01:17,042, Character said: - Who built this massive statue

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At 00:01:19,958, Character said: and why was it made?

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At 00:01:21,875, Character said: [dynamic music]

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At 00:01:35,333, Character said: [pensive music]
[text beeping]

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At 00:01:38,417, Character said: - 1403 BCE, the Giza
Plateau of Egypt,

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At 00:01:43,208, Character said: home to the Great Pyramids.

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At 00:01:45,875, Character said: Pharaoh Amenhotep
II rules the land.

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At 00:01:49,875, Character said: His younger son,
Prince Thutmose,

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At 00:01:52,125, Character said: has come to Giza
to hunt gazelle.

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At 00:01:54,875, Character said: But this royal hunting ground

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At 00:01:56,708, Character said: has an extraordinary past.

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At 00:01:59,417, Character said: - If you go back
around 1,000 years,

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At 00:02:02,042, Character said: the Giza Plateau is a
very important place

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At 00:02:04,167, Character said: of monumental buildings.

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At 00:02:06,458, Character said: It's there that some amazingly
large pyramids are built.

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At 00:02:12,167, Character said: However, at this time,

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At 00:02:13,375, Character said: it's fallen into disrepair,

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At 00:02:15,625, Character said: most of the structures
have been covered

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At 00:02:18,125, Character said: or partially covered
by the desert sands,

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At 00:02:21,208, Character said: and it's largely ignored.

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At 00:02:23,875, Character said: - By the time of
Prince Thutmose,

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At 00:02:25,250, Character said: the Giza Plateau is already
over 1,000 years old

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At 00:02:28,125, Character said: and already ancient.

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At 00:02:29,792, Character said: It's become this playground
really for the royal family.

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At 00:02:32,333, Character said: They race their
chariots, they hunt,

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At 00:02:34,708, Character said: they use it for these
different expeditions.

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At 00:02:37,333, Character said: - So, according to legend,

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At 00:02:38,458, Character said: Thutmose was out
on a hunting trip

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At 00:02:40,417, Character said: and he was looking for a place

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At 00:02:41,708, Character said: to get out of the hot,
burning, Egyptian sun,

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At 00:02:45,375, Character said: and he found shelter
next to this object.

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At 00:02:48,292, Character said: And as he g***t closer to it,

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At 00:02:49,917, Character said: it turned out that this object

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At 00:02:51,667, Character said: was a massive stone head

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At 00:02:54,333, Character said: protruding from
the desert sands.

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At 00:02:56,375, Character said: - He falls asleep
and has a dream.

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At 00:02:58,667, Character said: And in dream, a
God comes to him,

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At 00:03:01,833, Character said: the God Horus, who says,

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At 00:03:03,625, Character said: "If you free my
body from this sand,

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At 00:03:06,875, Character said: I will make sure
that you're king."

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At 00:03:10,042, Character said: - Because Prince Thutmose

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At 00:03:11,500, Character said: was not the heir apparent
for the throne of Egypt,

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At 00:03:14,375, Character said: this sounded like a
great deal for him.

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At 00:03:16,292, Character said: And so Prince Thutmose
then goes about

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At 00:03:19,208, Character said: restoring this giant statue

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At 00:03:21,208, Character said: to its former glory.

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At 00:03:24,917, Character said: - [Laurence] Once the prince
begins clearing away the sand,

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At 00:03:27,667, Character said: an extraordinary and mysterious
sculpture takes shape,

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At 00:03:31,958, Character said: a towering figure
carved from stone,

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At 00:03:34,458, Character said: now known as the
Great Sphinx of Giza.

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At 00:03:39,375, Character said: - Its body is about
250 feet long,

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At 00:03:44,000, Character said: which is nearly a
football field long,

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At 00:03:46,958, Character said: 66 feet high,

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At 00:03:49,250, Character said: and the shape of it
is the head of a king

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At 00:03:52,458, Character said: and the body of a lion.

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At 00:03:55,750, Character said: - Some have estimated

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At 00:03:57,208, Character said: that it must've taken something

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At 00:03:58,667, Character said: like a million
man hours of labor

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At 00:04:01,250, Character said: to carve this thing.

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At 00:04:02,958, Character said: That would be the equivalent

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At 00:04:04,417, Character said: of something like 100 workers

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At 00:04:06,500, Character said: working full time over
the course of three years.

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At 00:04:10,083, Character said: - It is a marvelous statue,

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At 00:04:12,542, Character said: and it's all made from
one piece of limestone.

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At 00:04:17,375, Character said: And Thutmose calls
it Haremakhet,

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At 00:04:20,375, Character said: which means Horus
in the Horizon.

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At 00:04:23,708, Character said: - Horus, who spoke to
Thutmose in this dream,

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At 00:04:26,375, Character said: is a God associated
with kingship,

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At 00:04:29,042, Character said: but also with the sun god Ra.

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At 00:04:31,167, Character said: And so after clearing the sands

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At 00:04:33,875, Character said: around this giant sculpture,

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At 00:04:36,042, Character said: Thutmose's dream comes true.

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At 00:04:38,292, Character said: He does in fact become
king in around 1400 BCE.

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At 00:04:42,708, Character said: - As king, Thutmose
not only digs it

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At 00:04:45,458, Character said: out of the desert sands,

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At 00:04:46,583, Character said: but he also does
restoration work

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At 00:04:48,875, Character said: on the statue itself.

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At 00:04:51,250, Character said: - [Laurence] Analysis
of pink remnants

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At 00:04:52,458, Character said: discovered on the statue

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At 00:04:53,958, Character said: reveal a fascinating truth
about its appearance.

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At 00:04:57,875, Character said: Experts now believe the
face and body of the Sphinx

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At 00:05:01,042, Character said: were painted a striking deep red

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At 00:05:03,042, Character said: with dark eyeliner.

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At 00:05:05,458, Character said: While the nemes,
or royal headdress,

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At 00:05:08,292, Character said: bore the noble colors
of the pharaoh,

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At 00:05:10,625, Character said: a vibrant blue interlaced
with gold stripes.

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At 00:05:14,750, Character said: To commemorate his
accomplishment,

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At 00:05:17,250, Character said: Thutmose places an
engraved vertical tablet,

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At 00:05:19,958, Character said: known as a stele,

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At 00:05:21,458, Character said: between the statue's front paws.

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At 00:05:24,208, Character said: - King Thutmose,

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At 00:05:25,500, Character said: he put his dream on that stele

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At 00:05:28,292, Character said: and wrote it down,

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At 00:05:29,292, Character said: wrote exactly what happened,

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At 00:05:30,500, Character said: that he fell asleep,
that he had the dream,

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At 00:05:32,792, Character said: and the Sphinx made him
the next king of Egypt,

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At 00:05:35,500, Character said: all inscribed on
the dream stele.

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At 00:05:38,542, Character said: - Not only does this tablet

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At 00:05:40,542, Character said: establish a connection between
Thutmose and the Sphinx,

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At 00:05:44,542, Character said: but it really
contributes seriously

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At 00:05:48,000, Character said: to the legend of this
mysterious object

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At 00:05:51,375, Character said: known today as the
Great Sphinx of Giza.

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At 00:05:53,958, Character said: [pensive music]

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At 00:05:55,667, Character said: - For a few hundred years,

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At 00:05:56,625, Character said: you have people far and wide

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At 00:05:58,208, Character said: to come and see the statue.

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At 00:06:00,417, Character said: And that would
include also travelers

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At 00:06:02,125, Character said: from outside the
Egyptian kingdom.

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