History of the Sphinx

Guard of the three pyramids
It is a rock monster made ​​of human head and body of a lion

We believe that there is a mysterious look no one could interpret a look at the ends of the desert and the kind of transcendence

height of  Sphinx is 18 meters
length of 57 meters
And 4,000 BC years old

Why built the Sphinx??

-There are some inscriptions placed by two kings from kings of old
-Says that the Sphinx represents one form of the sun god
-The purpose of this statue away all kinds of evil from the cemetery on the pyramids
 The meaning of the word sphinx in pharaonic (Master)
-Carved the Sphinx from the hard basalt rock and maybe appear for you that the head is smaller than the body because the body was buried under the sand favored to retain its structure intact from erosion desert unlike the head that was not buried and uncovered several times over the centuries, removed sand from the body of the Sphinx completely in 1905 to reveal the beauty of this statue
-Length of the foot 15 m and up full length to 45 m, height of the head of 10 m and width 4 m, and because the composition of the statue of several layers, some softer than the other has eroded some areas, and retained the other form and therefore has lost a lot of fine details of the form of the original

*The most common theory that King Khafre (2558-2532 BCE) of the fourth dynasty ordered the construction of the Sphinx, Khafre was a son of Khufu (the Great Pyramid) and there is a straight path between the Sphinx and the pyramid East (the tomb of Khafra)

 Thought for a long time that the face of the Sphinx-like face of King Khafre



Khafre



The surprising similarity between the face of the Sphinx and the face of the older brother of Khafre, is king (Djedefre), who ruled for a short time of time ( almost 8 years)



Djedefre

Unlike his brothers did not build his pyramid at Giza, but built in Abu Rawash, where now lies deeply harmful, and some believe that Khafre usurped the throne from his brother King then built his pyramid and Sphinx at Giza
- And suggested that a German scientist in Egyptian history that is the real builder of the pyramids of Khufu and the same is also the builder of the Great Pyramid but the possibility is far from reality

Pictures showing the location of gate of dreams and the story written on the rock in the heart of the statue

-There is between  feet, Sphinx Gate, now called the gate of dreams and engraved the story, tell us the story of the eighth generation of the royal two tenths Ttmosis VI - (c.1400-1390 BCE) Thutmosis IV Nam at the head of Sphinx, which was mired with dirt until his neck. Ttmosis dream that the Sphinx and the word and promise to become king but in return he has to free him from the sands of the desert and it removes the dust
-Do not know who had really happened in that period, but it seems that Ttmosis still sand on the Sphinx at the time, and believed that a dream was a story fabricated for political purposes, the type of propaganda to prove the legitimacy of the king and his credibility For as believing the ancient Egyptians that the gods are decided pharaoh and supported by the next, and perhaps in this case, the Sphinx itself ..
 Plate made ​​of granite over the gate tells the story of the dream as well as recording the first year under the rule of Ttmosis and at the gate of dreams there is nothing like the altar where you worship pagan at the time of Ramses II

Why Sphinx without a nose and where it disappeared?

Picture showing the extent of damage suffered by the face on the days of Napoleon

It was said that the Turks are broke his nose and his beard, but the story's most famous and ratifications is that the nose and beard, both victims of artillery rounds, Napoleon's training, but that after several shots did not work, only to break his nose and his beard and causing a lot of damage but the Sphinx not broken souls steadfast despite everything