Thank you for this, very interesting!
The vlogger mentions how later structures could have been build on older structures, which could mean that the sites themselves carry great significance. Currently sitting at 30 degrees latitude and perhaps an previous times at the equator (0 degrees). This in itself does not prove a date for the Sphinx merely that the location is far older.
What I am trying to explain is that we need to look to the stars to get some answers. The method I use is by going with the meridian of one of the cardinal directions.
So let's assume the Sphynx is indeed older, then how much older? I know about the water erosion hypothesis so let's use this as the latest time that it could have been build. My guess then would have been about 9700 BCE. This is not simply because of 'the age of Leo', which is part of the answer I would give.
But going by the nightly meridian it would have been the age of Scorpius:
Note that Antares crosses the meridian on the winter solstice, note also that Leo is in the west which would have placed it at the midheaven during sunset.
Now what is interesting is that if you look at 'sunset' in 9700 BCE the star Vega aligns with the polar axis:
This is equal to the midnight hour on the autumnal equinox:
That is not all 9700 BCE also marks the end of the Younger Dryas period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_millennium_BC
And even at 9700 BCE the location could have been more ancient as you suggested. In any case thank you for the reply :)
10th millennium BC
The 10th millennium BC spanned the years 10,000 BC to 9001 BC (c. 12 ka to c. 11 ka). It marks the beginning of the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic via the interim Mesolithic (Northern Europe and Western Europe) and Epipaleolithic (Levant and Near East) periods, which together form the first part of the Holocene epoch that is generally reckoned to have begun c.
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