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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Great Sphinx of Giza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Great Sphinx of Giza is a large half-human Sphinx statue in Egypt, on the Giza Plateau at the west bank of the Nile River, near modern-day Cairo.
		The Great Sphinx is a half-human statue with the face of a man and the body of a lion.
		The face of the Great Sphinx is generally thought to be a portrait of the Pharaoh Khafre (also known by the hellenised version of his name, Chephren), which would place its construction in the reign of the Fourth dynasty of Egypt(2723 BC–2563 BC).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Great_Sphinx_of_Giza (1259 words)

	Sphinx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sphinx is an iconic image of a recumbent lion with the head of a ram, of a falcon or of a person, invented by the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, but a cultural import in Greek mythology.
		Such Sphinxes were revived when the grottesche or "grotesque" decorations of the unearthed "Golden House" (Domus Aurea) of Nero were brought to light in late 15th century Rome, and she was incorporated into the classical vocabulary of arabesque designs that was spread throughout Europe in engravings during the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Sphinxes often appear in fantasy literature and role-playing games as races or species of monstrous creatures with the head of a person and the body of a lion, usually also with a pair of wings or the hind quarters of a bull.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sphinx (1119 words)

	Great Sphinx of Giza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Sphinx of Giza is a large half-human Sphinx statue in Egypt, on the Giza Plateau at the west bank of the Nile River, near modern-day Cairo (29.975299° N 31.137496° E).
		The Great Sphinx is a statue with the face of a man and the body of a lion.
		The Great Sphinx was believed to stand as a guardian of the Giza Plateau, where it faces the rising sun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza (1828 words)

	ChristStory Sphinx Page
		The Greek sphinx was the antithesis of the Egyptian one.
		The most famous Grecian sphinx was the terrifying child of Echidna who bore many other mythical monsters including Cerberus the three-headed dog, the Hydra, and a two-headed dog named Orthros with whom she conceived the sphinx.
		Sphinx composed of a man's head and chest, eagle's wings, a bull's hindquarters, and a lions' forequarters became symbols of the Biblical tetramorph and the four living creatures of Revelation (Ezek 1:5-14; Rev. 4:6-8).
	ww2.netnitco.net /users/legend01/sphinx.htm (1031 words)

	The Great Sphinx of Giza, an Introduction
		The Great Sphinx is to the northeast of Khafre's (Chephren) Valley Temple.
		The Great Sphinx is believed to be the most immense stone sculpture in the round ever made by man. However, it must be noted that the Sphinx is not an isolated monument and that it must be examined in the context of its surroundings.
		The Sphinx faces the rising sun with a temple to the front which resembles the sun temples which were built later by the kings of the 5th Dynasty.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/sphinx1.htm (2483 words)

	WLC - The great Sphinx of Giza
		The Egyptian sphinx is an ancient iconic mythical creature usually comprised of a recumbent lion – an animal with sacred solar associations – with a human head, usually that of a pharaoh.
		The face of the Great Sphinx is believed to be the head of the pharaoh Khafra (often known by the Hellenised version of his name, Chephren), which would date its construction to the Fourth Dynasty (2723 BC – 2563 BC).
		Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her Ethiopian homeland (for the Greeks remembered the Sphinx's foreign origins) to sit outside Thebes and ask all passersby history's most famous riddle: "Which creature in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?" She strangled anyone unable to answer.
	web.sakra.ch /sphinx.html (859 words)

	The Great Sphinx -Greek Mythology Egyptian Myth- Picture Poem Poetry History Egypt Sphinx Roman Sphynx spinx
		The name was subsequently applied to the Egyptian and other arabic sphinxes because of their physical similarity to descriptions of the mythical Greek Sphinx, although the construction of the Great Sphinx in Giza Egypt certainly predates the Greek story.
		The Egyptian sphinx is usually a head of a king wearing his headdress and the body of a lion.
		The Heritage - The Sphinx was one of the ill-fated offspring of the monsters Typhon (which breathed fire, had a hundred venomous heads and was eventually pinned by Zeus under Mt. Etna), and Echidna (which had a beautiful nymph's head and the body of a giant serpent).
	www.mythicalrealm.com /creatures/sphinx.html (581 words)

	The Great Sphinx
		The name 'sphinx' which means 'strangler' was first given by the Greeks to a fabulous creature which had the head of a woman and the body of a lion and the wings of a bird.
		The Great Sphinx is to the northeast of Chephren's Valley Temple.
		During a dream, the sphinx spoke to Thutmose and told him to clear away the sand because it was choking the sphinx.
	interoz.com /egypt/sphinx.htm (597 words)

	The UnMuseum - The Sphinx
		After 25 centuries the history of the great Sphinx at Giza was so forgotten that many believed it had been placed in its position, as guardian of the pyramids, by the Gods.
		In Greek legend, the Sphinx devoured all travelers who could not answer the riddle it posed: "What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?" The hero Oedipus gave the answer, "Man," causing the Sphinx's death.
		His conclusion is that the front and side of the Sphinx dated from 5000 to 7000 BC and was remodeled during Khafre's era to give the likeness of the pharaoh.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /sphinx.htm (1061 words)

	The Meaning of the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt
		Much controversy has surrounded the Great Sphinx, including whether or not it was actually carved as late as the 4th Dynasty, not surprisingly considering that it appears suddenly and without much precedent.
		Carved from the living stone, the Great Sphinx of Giza is an apt symbol for the god Atum, or the king in the guise, especially in Atum's aspect of a chthonic creator god.
		The sphinx temple also suggests that the complex was related to the solar cycle, which would not only include Atum as it sets, but also the sun in its other phases, including the rising sun, Khepri and the sun at its zenith, Re.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/sphinx4.htm (1414 words)

	Beit el-Wali cast
		The Great Sphinx is a large human-headed lion that was carved from a mound of natural rock.
		The beginning of one story about the Great Sphinx is written on a stele between the sphinx's paws.
		He dreamt that the Great Sphinx promised that he would become the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt if he cleared away the sand covering its body (the Great Sphinx was covered up to its neck).
	www.ancientegypt.co.uk /pyramids/about/sphinx.html (216 words)

	Rediscover Ancient Egypt - The Sphinx of Egypt at Giza
		All scholars agree that the Sphinx is a solar symbol.
		The Sphinx consists of the body of the lion symbolizing the power, in its physical form and the head of man, symbolizing intelligence and consciousness.
		The head of the Sphinx was made of a hard strata which is resistant to the effects of the natural elements.
	www.egypt-tehuti.org /sphinx.html (1223 words)

	The Antiquity of Man Robert Schoch
		If the Great Sphinx of Giza was weathered heavily, and at an early period in its existence, by precipitation, this suggests that it initially may have been carved prior to the last great period of major precipitation in this part of the Nile Valley.
		It is interesting to note that on the wall of the Sphinx ditch the beds for which Gauri and colleagues calculated the highest durability f actors are not consistently the least weathered and receded in profile (assuming that the wall of the Sphinx ditch was originally cut vertically or nearly vertically).
		Relative to the Great Sphinx of Giza, El-Baz's yardang hypothesis is untenable.
	www.antiquityofman.com /Schoch_redating.html (7362 words)

	The Classics Pages - Oedipus and the Sphinx
		The Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt is the oldest monumental stone sculpture in the world, and still the largest.
		But the Great Sphinx's face is not his, it is the face of Khafre, the mortal king (or maybe of Menkaure, his successor).
		The sphinx also had an element of Horus, the falcon-headed god of the kings: as is clear from contemporary heads of Khafre, Horus perched behind the king's head, spreading his wings protectively.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/sphinx.htm (3869 words)

	Sphinx Erosion
		The Great Sphinx on the Giza Plateau was not built, but rather carved from the limestone bedrock.
		Also, while the Sphinx enclosure lies at the drainage point of much of the Giza necropolis, the tombs at Saqqara are high on the desert plateau and thus in a drier place regardless of rainfall.
		Schoch concludes that the Sphinx was carved in two stages: the Sphinx's head and main body in the first stage, and the Sphinx's back end in the second stage (possibly as a part of Khafre's reconstruction).
	www.catchpenny.org /sphinx.html (1503 words)

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		Surely a great monument having to be painstakingly carved out of solid rock would have been celebrated but there is not even the slightest of mention regarding it's construction.
		To support this contention, I brought into evidence the inclined shaft in the Great Pyramid which were aimed at the south meridian towards these group of stars as well as written evidence from the Pyramid Texts that identified the afterlife destiny of the pyramid-kings with Orion.
		The Sphinx, in other words, was made to look at his own image in the horizon - and consequently at his own 'time'.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/3499/sphinx.htm (1078 words)

	Sphinx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Sphinx was originally commissioned by Kaphre (a son of Cheops), and was constructed from bedrock found within the Valley of Giza.
		The age of the Sphinx has been estimated to be roughly 4,636 years old and it dates from the time of the Fourth Dynasty.
		Another unique feature of the Sphinx is the presence of paint residue which suggests that at one time the Sphinx was painted, in which case the head piece probably resembled the colorful head piece attire traditionally worn by the pharaohs of the time.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/architecture/sphinx.html (448 words)

	LINK-MAIL: The Great Sphinx - Facts, Construction & Images
		The Mystery of the Sphinx ("..Along with the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Sphinx is one of the greatest enigmas and the most studied ancient monument of mankind’s history.
		Sphinx Introduction ("..The Great Sphinx of Giza belongs to the Giza necropolis west of Cairo.
		Sphinx Erosion ("..The Great Sphinx on the Giza Plateau was not built, but rather carved from the limestone bedrock.
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	Guardian's Sphinx
		From the north side the profile of the Sphinx reveals the proportion of the body to the head.
		A German Egyptologist has even suggested that the Sphinx was built by the father of Khafre, King Khufu, who was also the builder of the Great Pyramid.
		Thutmosis had a dream that the Sphinx spoke to him and promised that if he would free the Sphinx from the sand, Thutmosis would be destined to become king of Egypt.
	www.guardians.net /egypt/sphinx (839 words)

	The Age of the Sphinx, by Robert Bauval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		West knew, of course, that most Egyptologists believed that the Sphinx was built in 2500 BC in the time of the pharaoh Chephren (of Khafre), who is identified with the Second Pyramid at Giza.
		As for the proximity of Khafre's pyramid to the Sphinx (in fact it is 1700 feet away) this did not prove that both monuments were built as one complex nor, more relevantly, at the same epoch.
		While clearing the area in front of the Sphinx and the Valley Temple, a 'lucky turn of the spade' from one of the labourers unearthed part of an ancient complex of underground galleries and pathways.
	ds.dial.pipex.com /ritson/quest/sphinx/index.htm (2646 words)

	A Second Great Sphinx?
		Musabbihi mentions a smaller Sphinx across the Nile from the large one "south of Cairo" in a "ruined state of brick and stone" in the Annals of Rabi II around AD 1024.
		Despite Hancock and Bauval's assertions, the Great Sphinx was not identified with Hor-em-Akhet until centuries after the close of the Old Kingdom.
		It [the Great Sphinx] might possibly have had a companion if its sculptors had cared to repeat the exercise of carving it...
	www.catchpenny.org /seconds.html (818 words)

	REDATING THE GREAT SPHINX OF GIZA Dr. Robert M. Schoch
		Once the sides of the body and eastern end of the Sphinx were carved, the limestone floors surrounding these three sides of the sculpture began to weather; but what was to become the limestone floor behind the figure was still protected by a thick layer of solid rock.
		Holdren, 'Deterioration of the stone of the Great Sphinx,' NARCE 114 (1981), 35-47; Geological Survey of Egypt, Cairo, Geological Map of Greater Cairo Area (I 983), Scale 1:100,000; M. Lehner, 'The Development of the Giza Necropolis: The Khufu Project,' Mitt.
		The face of the sphinx is severely damaged, but what remains of it does not indisputably appear to resemble the face seen on known statues of Khafre.
	www.robertschoch.net /Redating%20the%20Great%20Sphinx%20of%20Giza.htm (7295 words)

	Great Sphinx, Egypt Photos
		The sphinx told him that if he did this, he would be rewarded with a kingship.
		The sphinx is built of soft sandstone and would have disappeared long ago had it not been buried for so long.
		In the 1980's, a carefully planned restoration of the Sphinx was in progress.
	www.nileboats.com /photos/photos_sphinx.htm (607 words)

	The Ancient Egypt Site - The Great Sphinx at Giza
		The Great Sphinx at Giza, one of the many monuments that we have come to consider an icon of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation, lies northwest of the Valley Temple of the Pyramid Complex of Khefren.
		As this structure appears to be very closely related to the Sphinx, archaeologists consider it to be the Sphinx Temple, but the precise function of this unique structure remains unclear to this date.
		A close geological study of the sphinx and the nearby temples has revealed that the large blocks which were used to build the Valley Temple of Khefren's complex were most likely quarried from the layers that run through the upper part of the Sphinx's body.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /topography/giza/sphinx/index.html (265 words)

	NOVA Online \| Mysteries of the Nile \| Great Sphinx of Giza
		The most enigmatic of sculptures, the Sphinx was carved from a single block of limestone left over in the quarry used to build the Pyramids.
		Half human, half lion, the Sphinx is 240 feet long and 66 feet high.
		The so-called "dream stela" of Tuthmosis IV, which the pharaoh placed between the Sphinx's paws about 1400 B.C. In this 180° image, as you "walk" around the Sphinx from its left side to its right, watch the sunrise first strike the top of the Khafre Pyramid in the background, then light up the Sphinx itself.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/egypt/explore/sphinx.html (216 words)

	Great Sphinx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In addition, the Egyptian sphinx was viewed as benevolent in contrast to the malevolent Greek version and was thought of as a guardian often flanking the entrances to temples.
		The most famous sphinx is the gigantic sphinx at Giza which is part of the funerary complex of Chephren (Khafre); is is located beside the pharaoh's Valley Temple and the covered causeway that led to the Mortuary Temple beside the pyramid.
		The Great Sphinx with the pyramid of Chephren (Khafre) in the background
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/egypt/giza/sphinx/sphinx.html (262 words)

	The Great Sphinx of Egypt
		The Great Sphinx of Egypt is thought to have been built by the 4th Dynasty King, Khafre dated by the standard Egyptian chronology to 2558-2532 BC.
		According to the Egyptian chronology Khafre would have lived and built the Sphinx some were between 1,800 and 1,900 BC, which would have been just past the peak of the ice age and just before the flooding at its end.
		This model resolves the conflict between the archaeological date for the Sphinx and the clear evidence of water erosion.
	genesismission.4t.com /Flood/Sphinx.html (391 words)

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