The Great Sphinx of Giza area is of good quality limestone, it is likely that it was originally coated with plaster and painted. The effects of the original colors and still be seen near one ear. 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, caused by sandstorms and other factors in the erosion of some of the different parts of the statue, especially the neck and some parts of the left-hand side and feet in addition to the back of the statue.
And between the paws of the Sphinx There panel tells the story of the dream of King Thutmose IV called the panel dream.
And covering the statue's head royal headdress called Baus also had a long false beard, which is now broken. The nose was also broken, often since the Mamluk era, who used it as a target for Nishan.
In a later period it was covered Sphinx small limestone blocks that were installed on the roof to protect it, then recently been replaced.
Of all the Egyptian Antiquities Sphinx remains a towering without cause, vague aimlessly, most of the Pharaonic monuments and evidence was behind religious belief or social goal, but the Sphinx did not know the target from its inception until now. Until recently, the prevailing belief is that the Sphinx built by order of Pharaoh Khafre of the Fourth Dynasty. The only reason for this belief is the simple similarities between the face and the face of the statue of Khafre .. !!.
One of the ancient papyrus manuscripts - dating back to four thousand years - has indicated that the sand covered the Sphinx for centuries until completely forgotten generations. One day, King's dream a wise man asked to drill in a particular place the statue in order to come out of his grave. Pharaoh was carried out this request and ordered to remove the statue into existence. It was this dream alone (which was considered sacred at the time) enough interesting statue and packaging layer Foreign !! granite.
The Egyptologists believe that the Sphinx was built in one time with the surrounding temples in the Fourth Dynasty. Today, there is nothing suspicious in this belief, while still surrounding temples retain Brsumaatha brightly suffer Sphinx base of the grooves and cracks exceeding a depth of eight feet each. This, if anything For that Sphinx (mysterious in its target and date) was present before the construction of the Pyramids of Giza and the temples of a long time !!.
Recent studies have revealed that the statue consists of (nucleus) of limestone very ancient and corrosion. The Granite State Vodevt layer before (4600) only a year - that is, in the age of the pyramids builders -. This means that the basis of the statue was built in the era of ancient civilization unknown before the era of the pharaohs much !!.
It is known that the statue carving a lion and the face of a man. The carving of Mount Jerry increase its hardness whenever we went up to the top. This explains why the erosion of the statue at the bottom while his face remained intact .. is that there is another reason may explain why the erosion of the statue - and appeared in which grooves longitudinal - at the bottom without the above, it is through Mr. Shoots studies (from Boston) and John West University (specialist in Egyptology) turned out to be the grooves and crevices bottom occurred due to water erosion caused by heavy rains and floods .. and if we know that Egypt is (for now) of the world's most scarce rain, it means that the statue was in a period in which was raining profusely - and this is simply means the last ice age .. before ten thousand years at least !!
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