They are a lot more impressive up close.
We're pretty sure we moved it, at least a millimeter.
From a distance, with camels.
Camel jockeys!
All that's missing is the Eye of Providence.
The Great Sphinx of Giza - which is believed to have been built around 2500 BC, or around 10,500 BC. What is interesting, is that both theories seem somewhat plausible.
From Wikipedia: "Many of the most prominent early Egyptologists and excavators of the Giza plateau believed the Sphinx and its neighboring temples to pre-date the 4th dynasty. British egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge stated in his 1904 book Gods of the Egyptians: This marvelous object [the Great Sphinx] was in existence in the days of Khafre, or Khephren, and it is probable that it is a very great deal older than his reign and that it dates from the end of the archaic period.
French Egyptologist and Director General of Excavations and Antiquities for the Egyptian government, Gaston Maspero, who surveyed the Sphinx in the 1920s asserts: The Sphinx stela shows, in line thirteen, the cartouche of Khephren. I believe that to indicate an excavation carried out by that prince, following which, the almost certain proof that the Sphinx was already buried in sand by the time of Khafre and his predecessors."
Good times.
Don't we look statuesque?
Perhaps not as regal, at least Jeremy still has a nose.
The long arms of the Sphinx.
We'll be returning to Cairo, and the Pyramids, but first we head to Sakkara... coming up next.
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