Colin Reader

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Colin Reader is an English geologist with an interest in Ancient Egypt and is also secretary of The Manchester Ancient Egypt Society.

His studies of the Sphinx have contributed to a debate on the outer fringes of archaeology regarding the date of the monument. Although his study dates the Sphinx as being carved within the conventionally-defined period, the study suggests that it was carved a few centuries earlier than presently agreed.

Publications include A geomorphological study of the Giza necropolis with implications for the development of the site (Archaeometry 43: 1 (2001) pp149-165)

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