The word "sphinx" meant the master.
There are many, many statues in the world in the form of the Sphinx, and most of these statues are found in Egypt, especially in the Giza region.
The Great Sphinx was rediscovered by the Western world when the French campaign in Egypt, led by Napoleon, passed in 1798.
King Khafra, the son of King Khufu, is the king who issued the order to build this huge statue, and there is a straight passageway connecting the tomb or pyramid of King Khafra with the statue of the Sphinx.
The Sphinx is one of the most luxurious and magnificent statues that the ancient Egyptians built. The body of this sculpted statue in the form of a lion is about 73.5 meters, including the length of the front legs of the statue 15 meters. The width of this statue is about 19.3 meters, and the height of the statue from the surface of the earth until it reaches the top of the statue is estimated at about 20 meters.
Also, the Sphinx is one of the oldest Egyptian sculptures, so this huge statue is about 5,000 years old. Some see that the Sphinx is a form of the so-called sun goddess, and some believe that the Sphinx is the son of the so-called god Ra, who was called by the ancient Egyptians in what is called the sun god in ancient Egypt.,
