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Download QR code ; In other projects ... Great Sphinx of Giza, Giza, Egypt. Date: 25 September 2011: Source: Own work: Author: Diego Delso (1974–) Alternative names ...
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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.
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]
Original - The Great Sphinx, albumen print created between 1867 and 1899 with the sphinx partially excavated. Reason For thousands of years the Great Sphinx of Giza was partially buried by desert sands. Excavation began with Napoleon in the early nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth century.
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