Sphinx
A statue carved with limestone, representing a mythical figure, carved to be the guardian of the place where it sits, has a human head, a lion’s body and standing on a huge stone base, next to the Pyramids, in Giza.
The Sphinx is one of the oldest statues known in Giza. Archaeological studies have shown that it was carved in the period between two thousand and five hundred and thirty-two, and in the year of two thousand and five hundred and fifty-five, on the time of Pharaoh Khafra, the builder of the second pyramid in Giza.
The length of the statue of the Sphinx is about seventy-three meters, and its width is nine and a half meters, and it rises from the surface of the earth by about two thousand meters.
Archaeologists have discovered that it was a huge piece of stone, before Khafre ordered to installed it as a guard for the area.
