Sculpture Great Sphinx at Giza is of good quality limestone , it is likely that it was originally covered with a layer of plaster and colored . And still the effects of the phenomenon of the original colors next to one of his ears . The length of the Sphinx , about 73.5 meters or 241.1 feet and a height of 20 meters or 65.6 feet
In the following centuries , because of sandstorms and other factors in the erosion of some of the different parts of the statue , especially the neck and in some parts of the left side and feet in addition to the back of the statue
And between the paws of the Sphinx no panel to tell the story of the dream of King Thutmose IV called a dream board
The statue's head covered with royal headdress labeled Baus also had a long false beard , which is now broken . The nose was also broken , since often the Mamluk era , who used it for target practice
In a subsequent period, the Sphinx small blocks of limestone have been installed on the roof to protect it , and then was replaced recently
The Sphinx at Giza sphinx statues months at all , has been carving limestone and head representing King Khafre , who lived 26 century BC. AD . And a length of 24 feet and a height of 66 feet . There are several statues in the shape of an Egyptian sphinx representing kings and goddess of the sun, and often Maicon bearded face of the statue , it has developed several statues on either side of the roads leading to the Pharaonic temples of Thebes , but the heads of rams headings namely what is known today as the rams through
The Great Sphinx of puzzles old but widely believed that the god Hur has stated more than once that God ( Populus Em sister ) Any Hur on the horizon , a picture of the god Atum largest Egyptian gods , a sun at sunset , has been visited by more than the king and the inscription that on the occasion of the visit of them ( Ra - Miss - CES ), the second in Cairo or Ramses II , and King Tutankhamun , who lived break next to the Sphinx , King Ramses II was before Tutankhamun as the fierceness of Tutankhamun is Amenhotep IV , who changed his name to Akhenaten when it veered off the old religion of monotheism , which was prevalent in Egypt and headed for the worship of the sun and did not continue in Egypt and died with his death . It is the Roman era of Emperor Septimius Severus visited
It is known that the Sphinx was the quarry before thinking of King Khafre in his sculpture in the form of a statue , and seen the statue to the east so it may have been changed cardinal in the last century to the consensus view of the Sphinx , and the Sphinx old called when the Pharaohs (b Bouhol ) was Pharaohs call the hole by which the Sphinx ( Brahol ) about any house , and when he came to Egypt, the French were telling him that his name ( Bohol ) because they are symbols Aantqon ha and then finally to a character ( the Sphinx ) . And reveal the paintings painted as the French campaign on Egypt Sphinx covered the whole in the sand next to the pyramids of the three then it is detected during the French campaign and that's when the storm revealed a small part of it, and when they were drilling and remove the sand and found a huge statue of a sphinx and the sand that was surrounded by completely removed in the year 1905
The length of the statue is now about 70 meters , and has the highest elevation above the ground about 20 meters to the top of the head
The nose of the Sphinx
And I lost the nose of the face of the statue , which has a width of 1 meter , and there are myths still circulating says that the nose has been destroyed by artillery soldiers of Napoleon . And other legends accuses British Ooualemmalak or others . But the fees that made the Danish explorer Frederick Lewis Nordin sphinxes in AD 1737 and published in 1755 in his book " The trip to Egypt and Nubia " describes the statue without a nose
In the writings of the Egyptian Maqreezi in Alqrnav Ashralmiladi attribute this break to sabotage a person called Mohammed Saem El-Dahr , a Sufi fanatic , and came in sermons and mind to mention the speeches and the effects of the first part 26/167 , where he wrote : " In our time it was someone who knows Sheikh Mohammed fasting the age of the inter mystical Khanqah validity happy happy in the manner of a seven hundred eighty years to change things from the evils and walked to the pyramids and the Sphinx face disfigured and Hosh is on it to today
He became lost forever fasting anger of Egyptians to bring offerings to the statue to increase their crops , tried and executed distorted due to sabotage
