stohalf human half lion great sphinx of giza is one of the largest statues in the wold. its mammoth head towers higher than a 6- story building in front the great pyramid of giza near cairo egypt historians believe the sphinx was believe the sphinx was built to honor pharaoh khufu between 2558-2531bce. they also say the sphinx originally had a beard but it crumbled off its nose was broken off on purpose but no one know who did it or why.
4,500 years later archaeologists dug up another sphinx not in the Egyptian desert but on the california coast this statue was made of plaster not limestone. It was one of 21 model sphinxes built in hollowed for a 123 .movie. The ten commandments and shipped in pieces to the movie set on the coast. When production was over the producer buried the whole set in the sand to avoid playing shipping cost back hollowed. 1n 2014
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