Mystery of the Sphinx

It's interesting how later discoveries support ridiculed and rejected theories to the point that they are eventually accepted. When James F. Romano said that there was no similar evidence of civilizations that supports the theory of a more ancient origin of the Egyptian Sphinx statue, I assume that was before archaeologists estimated the age of Gobekli tepe to possibly around 11000 years old. It's all just theory but the more we learn, the more we find out what we don't know. It would be interesting to find out what lies under the Sphinx's paw.