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  2. Hall of Records - Wikipedia

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    One of the survey's participants, the geophysicist Thomas Dobecki, argued that seismography showed a possibly man-made chamber under the sphinx's right paw. These claims were incorporated in the 1993 television documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx, which also mentioned Cayce's prediction about the Hall of Records. [30]

  3. Dream Stele - Wikipedia

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    The Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of the king's reign, 1401 BC, during the 18th Dynasty. As was common with other New Kingdom rulers, the epigraph makes claim to a divine legitimisation of ...

  4. Great Sphinx of Giza - Wikipedia

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    The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. [1] Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.

  5. Sphinx - Wikipedia

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    The word sphinx comes from the Greek Σφίγξ, associated by folk etymology with the verb σφίγγω (sphíngō), meaning "to squeeze", "to tighten up". [4] [5] This name may be derived from the fact that lions kill their prey by strangulation, biting the throat of prey and holding them down until they die.

  6. Pyramid of Sahure - Wikipedia

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    The causeway was roofed, with narrow slits left in the ceiling slabs allowing light to enter, illuminating its walls covered in polychromatic bas-relief. [88] These included scenes with seemingly apotropaic functions, such as a scene of the king represented as a sphinx crushing Egypt's enemies under his paw. [44]

  7. Dragon’s Dogma 2 a Game of Wits: Sphinx Riddle Answers - AOL

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    The Sphinx was happy with this, and to our relief, the Sphinx rewards you by giving your item back. The Riddle of Rumination – Dragon’s Dogma 2 For the Riddle of Rumination, you must return to ...

  8. Sphinx water erosion hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Sphinx is positioned north of the lower end of the causeway of Khafre that connects his Pyramid- and Valley Temple. It was created by carving it out of the bedrock, cutting blocks from around its body which were used to construct the Sphinx Temple immediately east of the Sphinx and north of the Valley Temple, aligned to it.

  9. Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi - Wikipedia

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    The middle compartment of the north row is arrived to by a 4.96 m (16.3 ft) deep. It contains a vaulted mudbrick burial chamber with dimensions of 2.62 m (8.6 ft) by 1.05 m (3.4 ft). This chamber has been blocked with a wall. [89] The south-east compartment contains a vaulted mudbrick burial chamber 1.2 m (3.9 ft) by 1.3 m (4.3 ft) large.