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	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).
		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.
	web.sakra.ch /sphinx.html (859 words)

	Great Sphinx of Giza - Definition, explanation
		The Great Sphinx is a half-human statue made from limestone, with the face of a man and the body of a lion.
		The Western name "Sphinx" was given to it based on the legendary Greek creature with the body of a lion and the head of a woman, but the Egyptian Sphinx has the head of a man, and therefore the name is not technically accurate.
		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 Fourth Dynasty (2723 BC–2563 BC).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gr/great_sphinx_of_giza.php (1068 words)

	Sphinx - MSN Encarta
		Sphinx, in ancient Egypt, the stone figure of a lion in a resting posture, the upper part of the body being that of a human, usually male rather than female.
		The most famous of all Egyptian sphinxes is the Great Sphinx at Giza, near the pyramids.
		In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was a monster with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a lion, and the wings of a bird.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552395/Sphinx.html (352 words)

	The Giza Building Project
		The Giza necropolis sits on a gently sloping limestone plateau, which falls from its highest point in the west (beyond the pyramid of Khafre) for a distance of over one and a half kilometres before reaching the former limit of Nile inundation (a short distance east of the Sphinx).
		Remarkably, within the Sphinx enclosure itself there is unquestionable evidence for erosion by running water, in the form of a shallow erosion channel that appears to issue from the base of the 'Main Fissure', at the point where it is exposed in the southern Sphinx enclosure wall (Figure 1).
		Schoch: 'Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza' in KMT 3:2 (1992), pp.
	www.gizabuildingproject.com /art_reader1.php (13171 words)

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		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).
		Relative to the Great Sphinx of Giza, El-Baz's yardang hypothesis is untenable.
		Giza is located only a few kilometers south of Cairo, several hundred meters from the last houses in the southernmost part of the city proper, where a limestone cliff rises abruptly from the other side of a sandy desert plateau.
	www.lycos.com /info/giza--giza-plateau.html (639 words)

	Sphinx
		The Great Sphinx of Giza, with the Pyramid of Khafre in the background.
		The face of the Great Sphinx is believed to be the head of the pharaoh Khafra (often known by the Hellenized, transformed by the Greeks, version of his name, Chephren), which would date its construction to the Fourth Dynasty (2723 BCE Äì 2563 BCE).
		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.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Sphinx.php (873 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)

	Egyptvoyager.com: The Giza Plateau - Sphinx
		The Great Sphinx started off as a knoll of rock (quarried in the course of pyramid building) at the bottom of the Giza Plateau towards the valley of the Nile.
		The later sphinxes of Egypt were often installed as pairs to guard entrances to significant places, but the Great Sphinx of Giza is a one-off.
		The Sphinx faces due east, with the same great precision of orientation as is seen in the disposition of the Giza pyramids.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /pyramids_giza_sphinxmain_1.htm (883 words)

	The Great Sphinx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		The Great Sphinx is to the northeast of Chephren's Valley Temple.
		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.
		During a dream, the sphinx spoke to Thutmose and told him to clear away the sand because it was choking the sphinx.
	touregypt.net /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)

	Great Sphinx of Giza at AllExperts
		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 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.allexperts.com /e/g/gr/great_sphinx_of_giza.htm (2021 words)

	Civilization.ca - Egyptian civilization - Architecture - Sphinx
		The face of the Great Sphinx is believed to be that of Chephren, the fourth-dynasty pharaoh who built the second-largest pyramid in the Giza triad.
		For example, a sphinx of Queen Hatshepsut was sculpted with her face and a pharaoh's beard.
		Images of the sphinx are found in various sizes and shapes, as the collection at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the temples throughout Egypt attest.
	www.civilization.ca /civil/egypt/egca15e.html (567 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Great Sphinx of Giza
		The Great Sphinx of Giza is a large half-human, half-lion 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 statue with the face of a man and the body of a lion.
		This marvelous object [the Great Sphinx] was in existence in the days of Khafre, or Khephren, and it is probable that it is a very great deal older than his reign and that it dates from the end of the archaic period.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza (2540 words)

	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 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.
	www.unmuseum.org /sphinx.htm (1061 words)

	The Antiquity of Man Robert Schoch
		Obviously, if the limestone cores (originating from the Sphinx ditch) predate the granite ashlars (facings), and the latter are attributable to Khafre of the Fourth Dynasty, then the Great Sphinx was carved prior to the reign of that king.
		The current standard attribution of the Great Sphinx and its associated temples to Khafre seems to be based on four major pieces of evidence: 1) a statue of Khafre recovered during the Nineteenth Century from the Valley Temple; 2) an ambiguous (and now effaced) inscription on a New Kingdom stela of ca.
		After thoroughly studying the problem, Domingo concluded definitely that the face of the great Sphinx is not the same face seen on statues of the builder of the second great pyramid.
	www.antiquityofman.com /Schoch_redating.html (7362 words)

	Chariot to Heaven, The Great Sphinx. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		A statue with a royal head and the body of a lion is called a sphinx.
		Many examples are known and the largest and most famous, the Great Sphinx, is at Giza.
		In later times, the Great Sphinx at Giza was regarded as a statue of the god Haremakhet, the special form of the local god Horus.
	www.ashmolean.museum /gri/9sphinx.html (174 words)

	A Second Great Sphinx?
		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...
		The later sphinxes of Egypt were often installed as pairs to guard entrances to significant places...
	www.catchpenny.org /seconds.html (818 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 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).
		Most people first associate "sphinx" to the Great Sphinx of Egypt, which was 'rediscovered' by the western world when Napoleon's soldiers came across it in 1798.
	www.mythicalrealm.com /creatures/sphinx.html (640 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.
	www.link-mail.com /44190.html (1079 words)

	The Great Sphinx at Giza
		The Great Sphinx at Giza (left) was part of the funerary complex of Pharaoh Kahfre and lies halfway between the mortuary complex (located at the base of the pyramid) and the Valley Temple.
		The Sphinx, which embodies the body of a lion and the head of a man (believed to be Khafre), acts as a guardian spirit for the entire complex.
		The Sphinx was carved from the Giza limestone and measures 157 feet long, 20 feet wide and 66 feet high.
	www.anniebees.com /Egypt/Giza_2.htm (291 words)

	The Great Sphinx
		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.
		The face of the sphinx is 13 feet (4m) wide and its eyes are 6 feet (2m) high.
	www.touregypt.net /sphinx.htm (597 words)

	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.
	guardians.net /egypt/sphinx (839 words)

	Giza Sphinx & Pyramids Pg.5
		The Great Sphinx Of Giza was carved from a rocky spur which suggested its shape.
		This great colossus of Khafre (240 feet long and 65 feet high) is both the guardian and symbol of Royality.
		During the New Kingdom the Sphinx was seen as the Syro-Canaanite god Hurun.
	www.delange.org /Sphinx/EP3-5.htm (194 words)

	Great Pyramids of Giza - Giza Pyramids
		The second-largest pyramid of Giza was built for Khufu's son Khafre (Chephren), who became the fourth king of the Fourth Dynasty after the death of his short-lived elder brother and died c.2532 BC.
		The Great Sphinx, near Khafre's pyramid, is believed to be a royal portrait of Khafre.
		Giza, northern Egypt, on the outskirts of Cairo
	www.sacred-destinations.com /egypt/giza-pyramids.htm (1643 words)

	The Ancient Egypt Site - The Great Sphinx at Giza
		The sphinx is a combination of the body of a crouching lion with the head of a human.
		That this was already the case during the 18th Dynasty is shown by the so-called Dream Stela erected between the Sphinx's front legs by Thutmosis IV.
		Located much higher than the Sphinx Temple that Khefren had built centuries before, it is quite obvious that in the middle of the 18th Dynasty, the Sphinx was indeed buried in the sands.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /topography/giza/sphinx/sphinx.html (630 words)

	Geographic Guide Africa - Photos of Sahara Desert and Wildlife - Victoria Falls and Egypt
		The Great Pyramids at Giza - the pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus were royal tombs, erected after 2780 B.C., in the old Egyptian empire.
		The Great Pyramid of Cheops (the one in the middle of the photo) is 138 meters high and has more than 6 million tons of stones.
		Four fifth of the African territory is situated between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer.
	www.geographicguide.com /africa.htm (1266 words)

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