egypt

The Sphinx

• is located in Giza, Egypt
• carved from the Giza plateau
• it has the body of a lion
• with a head of a king
• it no longer has a nose
• it has great paws and and a nice body
• it is 150 ft long
• the sphinx lines up with the pyramid of Khafre
• this is one of Khafre's tombs
• its from the 4th dynasty
• it is badly battered now but it was once a beautiful monument
• roughly 4,636 years old