THE GREAT SPHINX OF EGYPT

BUILT OF

• Built around 2600-2400 BCE
• Made of 2.5 million blocks of limestone
• Partially covered in sand

BIGGEST BUILDING

• Biggest building untill 14th century
• 66 FT high 240 FT long 63 FT wide
• Head of a human body of a lion

USED FOR

• Honoured Kings and Queens
• Oldest known monumental sculpture
• West of Cairo and Giza

DAMAGES

• Is south of the pyramid of the pharoah Khafre
• Face badly damaged
• Nose is missing
• Eyes and areas around them are seriously altered

FACTS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW

• Is believed that it had a beard
• Believed the face was ounce used for target practice
• The face of the mighty pharoah khephren

WHEN WE LIVE

• We aren't buried in tombs we are buried in cemetaries
• We aren't mummified
• We aren't sent to afterlife
• We are buried underground

HOW THE GREAT SPHINX AFFECTED EGYPTIANS

• Some of the great pharaohs were buried here
• Tunnel systems
• To guard a temple

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• The age of the sphinx
• Google maps
• Blog.world-mysteries.com
• Cheops-pyramid.com
• Sacredsites.com