John Anthony West, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Anthony West

American egyptologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1932

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 06-Feb-2018

Profession: writer, egyptologist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

John Anthony West (July 9, 1932 – February 6, 2018) was an American author, lecturer, guide and a proponent of the fringe Sphinx water erosion hypothesis.
His early career was as a copywriter in Manhattan and as a science fiction writer.
He received a Hugo Award Honorable Mention in 1962. In 1993, his controversial work with geologist Robert M.
Schoch was presented by Charlton Heston in an NBC special called The Mystery of the Sphinx.
This won West a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for Best Documentary.
The documentary contends that the main type of weathering evident on the Great Sphinx and surrounding enclosure walls could only have been caused by prolonged and extensive rainfall during the time period from 10,000 to 5000 BCE and was carved out of limestone bedrock by an ancient advanced culture (such as the Heavy Neolithic Qaraoun culture).
This challenged the conventional dating of the carving of the statue circa 2500 BCE.
West suggested that the Sphinx may be more than twice as old as originally determined, estimating it be from 35000 BCE, some 36,000 years ago whereas Schoch made a more conservative determination of between 5000 and 7000 BCE.