title: The Sphinx Mystery: The Forgotten Origins of the Sanctuary of Anubis
author: Robert Temple
description: "Robert and Olivia not only did an outstanding job of pulling together a treasure trove of little known historic facts and photos but they put them together in a way that tells an exciting and compelling story. This book clearly lays out the age-old Sphinx mystery like a puzzle, and then solves it while making sense of every anomaly along the way. What an excellent piece of work!" (<i>Walter Cruttenden, Director, Binary Research Institute</i>)<br /><br />"More than the unraveling of a mystery story, this book is a close-up look at the vanishing art of historical research and how academic infighting, politics, reckless restoration, and economic concerns affect such work. Temple makes an excellent case for the restoration of rigorous scholarly standards and the teaching of research techniques that go beyond electronic searches." (<i>Anna Jedrziewski, New Age Retailer, Jan 2009</i>)<br /><br />The true mysteries of the Sphinx, both hidden and forgotten, are brilliantly exposed in this compelling book by Robert and Olivia Temple. They have uncovered hard data revealing the manipulation and misinterpretation that dominate this area of Egyptology. Their use of solid evidence, textual and photographic, make their case unarguable. (<i>Michael Baigent, coauthor of Holy Blood, Holy Grail and author of The Jesus Papers</i>)<br /><br />Brilliant! A remarkable work of detailed and painstaking research, integrative thinking, and original insight. The Temples reinterpretation of some Egypts abiding mysteries is more than thought-provoking: it is inspiring. (<i>Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., author of The Presence of the Past</i>)<br /><br />I was swept straight into this marvelous book. Its brilliant, original, occasionally delightfully malicious, and it showed me just how little I really knew about the Sphinx. (<i>Colin Wilson, author of Atlantis and the Kingdom of Neanderthals and The Outsider</i>)<br /><br />"Quite brilliant detective work and deduction has gone into the book and the photographic reproductions (most of them from the massive collection that Robert holds personally) are simply immense. . . . This is a book not to be missed." (<i>Simon Cox, Into the Duat Magazine, Feb 2009</i>)<br /><br />"Although moderately technical (there really is no way to avoid it on a subject this compex), it is eminently readable and fairly easily understood. . . . Professor Temple makes no attempt to placate either side of the debate. He simply lays out his conclusions and allows the reader to decide whether they agree or not." (<i>Michael Gleason, Witchgrove.com, Feb 2009</i>)<br /><br />"For anyone interested in ancient Egypt this book is required reading. It is a fascinating and compelling study of how consensus blindness, adopted too often with a dogged arrogance, is the perennial enemy of research and understanding." (<i>Michael Baigent, Freemasonry Today, Issue 48, Spring 2009</i>)<br /><br />"Temple analyses ancient texts, commentaries, later eyewitness accounts, and early photographs, uncovering overlooked details. He discusses now-sealed secret chambers and his exploration of a tunnel at the rear of the structure (see www.sphinxmystery.info). This is indeed a monumental work!" (<i>Nexus New Times Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 3, May-June 2009</i>)<br /><br />"What makes Temple so exciting, quite apart from the stupendous depth of his research, is his refusal to take on board any received wisdom. His attitude towards received wisdom and 'consensual reality', bringing into his sights declining standards of scholarship in the Google Age and the 'restorative' work done on the Sphinx, is blatantly critical: 'One of the greatest myths of humanity is that everyone cares about the truth. Many people do not . . . " (<i>Jerry Glover, Fortean Times 250, May 2009</i>)
zlib_text: HAMMER AND ANVIL
  The Time of Troubles, vol. 2
  I
  When the younger Maniakes looked west from the governor's residence—a polite
  name for a fortress—in Kastavala, he could see only ocean. Even so, staring
  out at that ocean did not bother him unduly: he knew that beyond it lay the
  town of Opsikion, and beyond Opsikion the rest of the Empire of Videssos.
  He and his father, from whom he drew his name, had lived on the island of
  Kalavria half a dozen years now. It was exile, but polite, honorable exile:
  the elder Maniakes was governor of the island. The Avtokrator Likinios had
  named him to the post, and Genesios, after murdering Likinios and all his sons
  and seizing the imperial throne for himself, had seen fit to leave him
  undisturbed. In his day, the elder Maniakes had been a soldier to reckon with;
  Genesios was no doubt just as glad to keep him busy far, far away from
  Videssos the city, the great capital of the Empire.
  The younger Maniakes stirred restlessly. He knew just how far Kalavria w