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The Great Sphinx

The Great Sphinx

Photo: MusikAnimal · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a resting sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. The monument was sculpted from the limestone bedrock of the Eocene-aged Mokattam Formation and faces east on the Giza Plateau, on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.

Text source: Wikipedia · Great Sphinx of Giza (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Last updated: 7 November 2026

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