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  2. Great Sphinx of Giza - Wikipedia

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    The Sphinx is a monolith carved from the bedrock of the plateau, which also served as the quarry for the pyramids and other monuments in the area. [20] Egyptian geologist Farouk El-Baz has suggested that the head of the Sphinx may have been carved first, out of a natural yardang, i.e. a ridge of bedrock that had been sculpted by the wind. These ...

  3. Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie - Wikipedia

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    As the first near-realistic drawing of the sphinx, he is the earliest known to draw the Sphinx with the nose missing. Although Richard Pococke in the same year visited and later published a stylish rendering (in A Description of the East and Some other Countries , 1743), he drew the Sphinx with the nose still on.

  4. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Great Sphinx of Giza

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  5. File:The Great Sphinx, Pyramids of Gizeh-1839) by David ...

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    Es zeigt die Große Sphinx von Gizeh, die teilweise unter Sand begraben ist. Zwei weitere Pyramiden sind im Hintergrund zu erkennen. Zwei weitere Pyramiden sind im Hintergrund zu erkennen. English : 19th century painting of Sphinx of Giza , partly under sand, with two pyramids in the background.

  6. ‘Mysterious’ inscription on ancient sphinx is deciphered ...

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    Photo from the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry. A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. ... “The characters may seem mysterious at first ...

  7. Giza pyramid complex - Wikipedia

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    Rights to excavate the Pyramids were then also negotiated between Schiaparelli, Borchardt, and Reisner. Schiaparelli gained rights to excavate the Great Pyramid of Khufu along with its three associated queens' pyramids and most of its Eastern Cemetery. Borchardt received Khafre's pyramid, its causeway, the Sphinx, and the Sphinx's associated ...

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

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  9. File:Sphinx partially excavated2.jpg - Wikipedia

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