It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
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It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.
When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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