The Great Sphinx

A sphinx commitee of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization (EAO) made the decision to replace many of the Roman and Baraize restoration stones all around the body. The team used some 2,000 new limestone blocks, which were larger than those of phase III, as replacements, and simply discarded the old blocks. ~EC

Although vandalism is the most likely reason the nose is chipped it was not Napoleon that did it.

Yes. It asks people who come by one question: What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, and 3 at night? The answer is: A human! You crawl on 4 legs as a baby, 2 when your an adult, and 2 legs plus a cane when your an older person. You only get one chance to answer it it, so if you get it wrong, it will eat you. It has the power to confuse

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An acre is a measurement of area, that is usually defined in square feet. 100 acres is 43,560 square feet.

Pharaoh Khafra

The Sphinx was built in approximately 2500 BC.

This is an excerpt from Wikipedia about the nose:

The one-meter-wide nose on the face is missing. Examination of the Sphinx's face shows that long rods or chisels were hammered into the nose, one down from the bridge and one beneath the nostril, then used to pry the nose off towards the south.[32]

The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century AD, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In AD 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism. Al-Maqrīzī describes the Sphinx as the "talisman of the Nile" on which the locals believed the flood cycle depended.

There is also a story that the nose was broken off by a cannonball fired by Napoleon's soldiers, that still lives on today. Other variants indict British troops, the Mamluks, and others. However, sketches of the Sphinx by the Dane Frederic Louis Norden, made in 1737 and published in 1755, illustrate the Sphinx already without a nose.

Lion, just look at it and you can see it.

A prince named Oedipus was traveling through the Greek countryside when he approached the city of Thebes. The road to the city was blocked by a monster called the Sphinx. She had the body of a lion and the head of a woman. She lay crouched on top of a rock, stopping all travelers to ask them a riddle.

Any traveler who solved the riddle could pass; but those who answered incorrectly were killed. When Oedipus approached the Sphinx, no one had solved the puzzle.

Oedipus was ready for the challenge and The Sphinx was waiting for its next victim.

"What goes on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening?" asked The Sphinx.

Oedipus thought a moment. Then he replied "The answer is Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane in old age."

The Sphinx was so angry that Oedipus had solved her riddle that she threw herself off the rock and died.

The people of Thebes showed their appreciation Oedipus by making Oedipus king.

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A: No! It has no inside. It's carved from a solid outcrop of rock.

The Great Sphinx is thought to be a portrait of the Egyptian pharaoh Khafre.

Obelisks

The word "obelisk" comes from the Greek word obelos, meaning a dagger. These monuments were thought to look like daggers, with their columns ending in a point. Obelisks are typical examples of ancient Egyptian art; they have an elegant slender form, a square base, and end in a pyramid-shaped point.

In height, as a rule, they are about ten times the diameter of the base. The point was usually sheathed in a bright precious metal, silver or gold, but of these valuable metals was stolen long ago. Because of the layer of metal the columns reflected the sunlight brilliantly and they could be seen from a great distance.

Obelisks were carved out of reddish-coloured granite found at Aswan. Sometimes dark grey basalt was used.

The dimensions varied: the tallest known obelisk remains unfinished in a cave at Aswan (about 40m) and the smallest is less than 2 metres in height. They were not merely decorative but stood in front of the temples and were usually dedicated to the sun gods. On many obelisks there are inscriptions in hieroglyphics saying to which gods they were dedicated.

Yes Cru Mbling is the Great Sphinx of Egypt.

It is believed that Khafre's workers shaped, by carving, the stone into the lion and gave it their king's face over 4,500 years ago. See the link below.

What walks on three legs in the afternoon?

Answer: Man

walks on 4 legs in morning, as in a baby crawling, two legs in afternoon, as adult, and three at night, as a man with a cane

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he built the great sphinx of giza

An obelisk. The word obelisk comes from the Greek word obelos, meaning dagger. These monuments were thought to look like a dagger. Obelisks are typical examples of ancient Egyptian art. They have an elegant slender form, a square base and end in a pyramid-shaped point.

In height, as a rule, they are about ten times the diagonal of the base. The point was usually sheathed in a bright precious metal, silver or gold, but of these valuable metals was stolen long ago. Because of the layer of metal the columns reflected the sunlight brilliantly and they could be seen from a great distance.

Obelisks were usually carved out of reddish-coloured granite found at Aswan. Sometimes dark grey basalt was used.

The dimensions varied: the tallest known obelisk remains unfinished in a cave at Aswan (about 40m) and the smallest is less than 2 metres in height. They were not merely decorative but stood in front of the temples and were usually dedicated to the sun god. On many obelisks there are inscriptions in hieroglyphics honouring the gods and to the Pharaoh who ordered their erection.

The huge unfinished obelisk at a cave at Aswan helps to show us how such monuments were made. First of all the Egyptians insisted that the stone to be used should have no defects, such as cracks or blemishes. Next the rock was cleaned and the surface of the rock was scraped until it was smooth and flat. After smoothing, the contours of the obelisk were marked out on the ground and a deep ditch was bashed out of the rock out around them by gangs of slaves hammering away with pounding balls made from dolerite. These were especially hard stones made from dolerite, dark coloured basalt from the desert valleys of Egypt. These stones weighed anything up to 5 kilograms each.

The fourth face of the obelisk was torn from the seam of rock with enormous wooden wedges which were driven into previously prepared holes at regular intervals. The wedges were soaked with water, and as they expanded the rock split.

At this stage hundreds maybe thousands of slaves, depending on the size of the obelisk, worked with ropes and jacks to raise the obelisk from the ditch and to heave it on to planks resting upon a massive sledge. It was a scene of organised chaos as hordes of slaves, swarmed about the great stone. Although there was no throbbing machinery there was noise: of stone grinding on stone, the creaking of straining timber, the shouts of the foremen and the chanting of slaves. Once it rested safely on its sledge, the obelisk was dragged by slaves to the bank of the Nile. Here it was received by more gangs of slaves who then loaded it onto a long barge to be taken to its destination.

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