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...been accelerated by the Aswan High Dam, more than 400 miles upriver. The new dam has raised the water table throughout the Nile Valley. Another villain has been the high-salt mortar used to restore the flaking monument. "Walking on top of the Sphinx in the morning," says Gauri, "you can hear the stones popping like potato chips...
...Gauri's analysis was prompted by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and the Egyptian Antiquities Organization (EAO). The agencies set out jointly in 1979 to clean and map the monument. The task of producing a detailed architectural chart of the Sphinx was taken on by Mark Lehner, 32, ARCE's field director. At Lehner's invitation, Gauri visited the site...
...Gauri, who has worked on the Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, proposes that the Egyptians flush out the Sphinx's salt deposits and replace part of its veneer with low-salt stone and mortar. "If the work is done right," says Gauri, "it should last as long as the stones of the pharaohs...
Last October a section of veneer in the statue's left haunch collapsed. The Egyptians postponed consideration of Gauri's plan, formed seven committees to study the problem, and began to repair the Sphinx's left side. In the Egyptian view, the main threat to the Sphinx is not from humidity but from the higher water table...
...Houston's Susan Beth Franzheim, 41, the wife of Kenneth Franzheim II, former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga. Franzheim, who believes she may be the reincarnation of Senmut, an Egyptian court adviser who lived some 3,400 years ago, donated $20,000 to ARCE for Gauri's initial research and offered to raise $60,000 more...