Robert Milton Schoch is an American associate professor of Natural Sciences at the College of General Studies, Boston University.

Following initial work as a vertebrate paleontologist, Schoch co-authored and expanded the fringe Sphinx water erosion hypothesis since 1990, and is the author of several pseudohistorical and pseudoscientific books.

[2][3] Schoch's PhD dissertation, Systematics, Functional Morphology and Macroevolution of the Extinct Mammalian Order Taeniodonta, was published in 1986 by the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

[7][8] From the 1980s to the 2000s, Schoch published research in vertebrate paleontology, primarily on fossil mammals from the Paleogene period, such as taeniodonts,[5] brontotheres,[9] pantodonts,[10] dinoceratans[11] and early rhinocerotoids.

[20] Schoch also claims that possibly all pyramids — in Egypt, Mesoamerica and elsewhere were the result of the destruction of an ancient protocivilization in Sundaland between 8000 and 6000 years ago by rising sea levels caused by repeated collisions with comets.

[26] Mark Lehner, an American archaeologist and egyptologist, has disputed Schoch's analysis, stating, "You don't overthrow Egyptian history based on one phenomenon like a weathering profile... that is how pseudoscience is done, not real science.