Giza's Sphinx
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Giza's Sphinx


The age of the Sphinx has long been debated but whether the human face actually was originally carved as a lion is unknown.

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- An Alternative View On The Sphinx
The Daily Grail (Rober Schoch) With 20 comments in response, at the time of posting. I first met the Great Sphinx face-to-face on 17 June 1990. She (yes, I consider the Great Sphinx a female) has influenced and in many ways defined my life ever since....

- In The Lab: Laser Scanning The Sphinx
drhawass.com Video. The Sphinx has always been an object of fascination for people for thousands of years. Today, new technology allows us to study it in more detail than ever. We recently cooperated with a team from the Mubarak Scientific City using...

- Feature: Uncovering Secrets Of The Sphinx
Smithsonian.com (Evan Hadingham) Five page article about investigations into the Sphinx. Here's an extract: Recognized today as one of the world’s leading Egyptologists and Sphinx authorities, Lehner has conducted field research at Giza during most...

- Egyptologist Proposes That There Were Two Sphinxes At Giza
Egypt Daily Star (Ahmed Maged) Egyptologist Bassam El Shammaa believes that the famed half-lion, half-man statue was an Egyptian deity that was erected next to another sphinx, which has since vanished without a trace. This contradicts what many have believed...

- Enigma Of The Smile On The Nile
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/7/story.cfm?c_id=7&ObjectID=10358288A travel article about Giza, the Valley of the Kings and other sites including Edfu, with some bullets with advice for tourists about visas, tipping, getting around etc: "It's...



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