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ID: #39949
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The Great Sphinx
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The Great Sphinx is the largest and oldest representation of a sphinx from ancient Egypt. A sphinx was an imaginary creature of ancient myths. Like the Great Sphinx at Giza, most Egyptian sphinxes had the head of a man and the body, feet, and tail of a lion. The Great Sphinx, built by the Egyptians about 4500 years ago, wears a royal headdress and lies near the pyramid of King Cafre. Historians believe that the Sphinx's face is a portrait of Caffrey, who probably had the monument built. The Sphinx is 240 feet or 73 metres long and stands about 66 feet or 20 metres high. The width of its face measures 13 feet 8 inches, or 4.17 metres. Its head and body were carved directly out of a giant rock in a limestone formation, and stone blocks were cut to form the paws and (legs).
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