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A good question, but it does presuppose the knowledge that The Great Sphinx is in Sahara. The first sentence only says it is in Egypt. For test takers who are bad at geography (such as me), it adds an added layer of difficulty. :-)
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Hi experts VeritasKarishma GMATNinja

I am confused between choice B and E.

My analysis:

Author's conclusion is that the Great Sphinx's face is not the face of Khafre.

He supports it by stating that the Lion's legs have some erosion patterns, which can only be caused by heavy rain and such rains had not occurred in Sahara in last 10k years.

Assumptions:
1. Sphinx is present in Sahara.(We can ignore this assuming that GMAT expects this much geographical knowledge from us)
2. Nothing else could have caused the same erosion patterns.
3. Patterns on the lion's legs are a representation of the patterns on the face.

I chose choice B since it states that there are others patterns, which shows the possibility that something else could have caused those patterns if not heavy rains.

I don't understand the link choice E provides to connect the conclusion with the premise. It says that the face is smaller than rest of the head, indicating that it may have been re-carved.
How does this links the premise and the conclusion.

Please provide a complete explanation for this question.

Originally posted by thereisaFire on 09 Jul 2021, 10:02.
Last edited by thereisaFire on 12 Jul 2021, 23:30, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: The Great Sphinx is a huge statue in Egypt that has a lion’s body with [#permalink]
Option E. This gives the idea that even if the legs and the heads were eroded due to rain, the head was recarved later, hence it doesn't show any sign. But since legs weren't recarved, there are signs of erosions. Hence, it weakens the arguments that rain might be a cause of erosion for the legs portion of the sculpture.
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Re: The Great Sphinx is a huge statue in Egypt that has a lion’s body with [#permalink]
carcass wrote:
The Great Sphinx is a huge statue in Egypt that has a lion’s body with a man’s head. The face of the Sphinx has long been claimed to be that of Pharaoh Khafre, who lived around 2600 B.C., but it cannot be: erosion patterns recently discovered on the lion’s legs can only have been caused by heavy rains, and the Sahara has not had heavy rains in over 10,000 years.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. The face of the Sphinx bears a resemblance to the faces on certain stylized statues dating from both before and after the reign of Khafre.
B. Other erosion patterns that appear on the body of the Sphinx are of a sort that could be caused by wind and sand alone
C. Other than the Sphinx, there are no surviving sculptures that have been claimed to portray the face of Khafre.
D. In the last 10,000 years the climate of Egypt has been so dry that even rains that are not heavy have been extremely infrequent.
E. The face of the Sphinx is small relative to the rest of the head, indicating that the face may have been recarved long after the Sphinx was built.


its a silly question but i want to ask-"the Sahara has not had heavy rains in over 10,000 years. " means there has been no rain from last 10000 years....or before 10000 years from now, there is no rain?

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