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The Great Sphinx of Giza (Arabic: أبو الهول‎, translit. ʼabu alhōl / ʼabu alhawl, IPA: [ʔabu alhoːl], English: The Terrifying One; literally: Father of Dread), commonly referred to as the Sphinx of Giza or just the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human.[1] Facing directly from West to East, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx is generally believed to represent the Pharaoh Khafre.


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François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette, French, 1821–1881 Giovanni Battista Caviglia, Italian, 1770–1845 Selim Hassan (Bey), Egyptian, 1886–1961 Émile Baraize, French, 1874–1952
Great Sphinx

Khafre
Excavated in 1936-1937 by Hassan.
Khafre