Beside the valley temple
The Great Sphinx
A limestone figure with a man’s face and the body of a recumbent lion, south of the Great Pyramid, near Khafre’s valley temple.
The Great Sphinx, south of the Great Pyramid near Khafre’s valley temple, is carved out of limestone with the facial features of a man and the body of a recumbent lion, about 240 feet (73 metres) long and 66 feet (20 metres) high.1
The necropolis, UNESCO says, includes the three pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx, among more than thirty-eight pyramids.2
Britannica places the Sphinx in that setting. It does not, in the passage used here, settle every argument about whose face it is. This site follows that caution and does not crown a theory.
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