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No one knows. There are guesses, but no real proof. The nose is gone so the whole face isn't there. It is approximately 5,000 years old, but recent work on the site has shown to get stones to the site a waterway was made and the silt from the ancient waterway shows an age closer to 8,000 years.

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The Sphinx was part of a Masonic Initiation centre and was connected by passageways to the 3 nearby pyramids.

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