the great Sphinx

 

Sphinx is a statue of a mythical creature of the body of a lion and a human head is located on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt near the pyramids. Is the oldest known large sculptures, a length of 73.5 m, and width of 6 m. and a height of 20.22 meters. Believed to be built by the ancient Egyptians are from the Old Kingdom during the reign of the pharaoh Khafre (2558-2532) BC.

There are some inscriptions put by two of the old Kings says that the Sphinx represents one form of the sun god the god "hor-em-akht", and they worship it and draw paintings in his name, the most famous of these paintings that of King Thutmose IV of the Eighteenth Dynasty, known as the Dream Stela.