sphinx

Historic About Sphinx
The EPG height of 18 meters
And long, 57 meters
The 5000-year-old Amra
Why built the Sphinx?
There are some inscriptions placed two kings of ancient kings
Says that the Sphinx represents one of the forms of the sun god
She says the purpose of this statue dimensions of all kinds of evil
Ho about the cemetery's pyramids
The Meaning of the word Sphinx Balvraonyh (Mr.)

Re-discovery of the Sphinx of the western world when the passage of Napoleon in Egypt in 1798, and there are very MOST of sphinxes and around the world, mostly in Egypt and Giza
And some of them regarded son of the goddess of Egyptian sun (Ra) and is thus represents strength and wisdom and was a symbol of the presence of Egypt's strong centuries ago, but that there is another kind of sphinxes of Egypt and will be in the form of a ram and is continued for God is another (Amon)
He (Anubis) guard the cemetery and is responsible for embalming

Carving of the Sphinx of rock hard basalt and probably prepared you that the head is smaller than the body because the body was buried under the sand preferred to retain its structure intact from erosion desert unlike the head that was buried and uncovered several times over the centuries, removed the sand from the body of the Sphinx completely in 1905 to reveal the beauty of this statue
Length of foot 15 m and up the full length to 45 m, height of the head 22:00, presentation 16:00, and because the composition of the statue of several layers, some smoother than the other has eroded some areas and kept the other form, and so it has lost a lot of the fine details of the shape of the original

The most common theory that King Khafre (2558-2532 BCE) from the fourth dynasty is ordered the construction of the Sphinx, Khafre is one of the sons of Khufu (the owner of the Great Pyramid) and there is a straight path between the Sphinx and the pyramid East (the tomb of Chephren)

And is almost of the same age pyramid built uncle East 2540 BCE, and some scientists estimated the age of the Sphinx between 7,000 to 10,000 years at the expense of the degree of erosion of the body and the head, by factors of erosion and desert extreme humidity

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