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  2. 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. The face of the Sphinx appears to represent the pharaoh Khafre. [2]

  3. Giovanni Battista Caviglia - Wikipedia

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    The Sphinx of Cairo in Egypt. Giovanni Battista Caviglia (1770 in Genoa – September 7, 1845, in Paris) was an Italian explorer, navigator and Egyptologist. He was one of the pioneers of Egyptian archeology of his time. [1] He was influential in the excavation of the Sphinx of Giza near Cairo.

  4. Mark Lehner - Wikipedia

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    Sphinx at Giza Plateau in Egypt. Lehner first went to Egypt as a student in the 1970s. Intrigued by the mysteries of the "Sleeping Prophet", Edgar Cayce, Lehner "found that [my] initial notions about the ancient civilization along the Nile could not stand up to the bedrock reality of the Giza Plateau". [1]

  5. Giza Plateau - Wikipedia

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    From north to south: parts of the city of Giza, the Giza Necropolis, and part of the Giza plateau. The Giza Plateau (Arabic: هضبة الجيزة) is a limestone plateau in Giza, Egypt, the site of the Fourth Dynasty Giza pyramid complex, which includes the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex.

  6. A New Study Reveals the Astonishing Way the Great Sphinx in ...

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    Was the Great Sphinx of Giza a natural landform that ancient Egyptians modified to form the stone-faced feline? A new study uses fluid dynamics to find out.

  7. Fourth Dynasty of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Age of the Pyramids refers to the fact that the Fourth Dynasty was the time when most of the well-known pyramids were built, which include those at Giza. King Sneferu was the first king to express an interest in funerary rites and tombs, which led him to the planning of the largest pyramid at Egypt.

  8. Scientists offer evidence to support possible Great Sphinx ...

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    The Great Sphinx remains one of the world’s biggest mysteries, but a new study suggests that wind could have had a bigger hand in shaping it than originally thought. Scientists offer evidence to ...

  9. Giza Great Sphinx likely sculpted by wind long before ancient ...

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    ‘Our results provide a simple origin theory for how Sphinx-like formations can come about from erosion’ Giza Great Sphinx likely sculpted by wind long before ancient Egyptian artists gave it ...