The esoteric profile of the Great Sphinx

            Cut from the bedrock, the Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of the mythical creature sphinx with a body of a lion and head of a human in a reclining position. The head of the Sphinx is generally believed to represent Pharaoh Khafre.

The great Sphinx is one of the world's largest and oldest statues, but basic facts about it are still subject to debate like, when and who built it and for what purpose.

It is impossible to know what the creators called this statue as there is no Old Kingdom inscription bearing its name, the date of construction, or the original purpose. The name 'Sphinx' was given in Classical Antiquity, almost 2000 years after it's accepted albeit controversial date of construction. 

Though amidst several conflicting shreds of evidence and viewpoints over the years the common viewpoint held by modern Egyptology is that the Great Sphinx was built by the Pharaoh Khafre during 2500 B.C. The theories put forward by the Egyptologists are not universally accepted and various persons have provided alternative hypotheses about the builder and the period of construction. Few of the Fringe Hypotheses being the 'water erosion hypothesis', 'Orion correlation theory', and the 'hidden chambers hypothesis'.

Taken in: Egypt / Giza / Nazlat as Sammān (show map)

Taken on: March 8, 2020

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Camera: Nikon D7500, f/9.0, 1/640 sec, 52mm (=78mm), ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

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