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The Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of Cheops

The Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of Cheops

Adele D. Oliver


Community Manager, Lotusland, Canada

The Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of Cheops

the only image I have of a frontal view of the Sphinx and taken through the window of the bus, and not so good with the top of the pyramid cut off and the composition ...... but there were constructions going on, and we could only see her from the side :-((((


The Great Sphinx of Giza (Abū al-Haul, English: The Terrifying One; literally: Father of Dread), commonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx (a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head) that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx is generally believed to represent the face of the Pharaoh Khafra.
It is the largest monolith statue in the world, standing 73.5 metres (241 ft) long, 19.3 metres (63 ft) wide, and 20.22 m (66.34 ft) high.[1] It is the oldest known monumental sculpture, and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafra (c. 2558–2532 BC).
Thank you, Wikipedia

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