The Sphinx is located in the pyramid tomb area of Giza, Egypt. Part of the head is said to be shaped by the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh hafra according to his own portrait, [1] it is also believed that rajidev was built according to the portrait of his father Khufu.
The image is 20 meters high and 57 meters long. If two front claws are included, the total length is 72 meters. The face is about 5 meters long and 4.7 meters wide, the nose is 1.71 meters long, and the mouth is 2.3 meters and 1.93 meters large. It wears a "NAMIS" crown, has a fan-shaped "NAMIS" scarf hanging on both ears, has a relief of the holy snake "Cobra" (COBRA) engraved on its forehead, has a long drooping beard, a collar around its neck, and a lion body dressed in eagle feathers.

For thousands of years, the sphinx has been buried to the shoulder by sand, revealing a strange head on the horizon of the Sahara desert. In 1817, the Genoa Explorer captain Giovanni Batista Cavilla led 160 people to dig out the stone statue, but the sand quickly filled the excavated sand pit. This is the first excavation of the Sphinx in modern history. Until the late 1930s, the Egyptian archaeologist Salim Hassan finally liberated the Colossus from the yellow sand. At that time, the New York Times declared: "the Sphinx finally came out of the impenetrable shadow of forgetfulness and became a landmark."
Who built the Sphinx is also a mystery. At first, ancient Egyptologists thought it was pharaoh Khufu, who was built to keep the spirit of his pyramid. This statement derived a vivid description: in 2610 BC, pharaoh Khufu came here to inspect his nearly completed mausoleum, the great pyramid. Huff found that there was still a huge stone left in the quarry and immediately ordered the masons to carve a sphinx according to the shape of his face.
But reinar and other archaeologists gradually deduced that the stone statue was built by Pharaoh Hafr, the son of Khufu. Hafr ruled Egypt in 2600 BC. The dynasty lasted for 500 years and finally collapsed due to war and famine. According to hieroglyphic records, Khufu built a pyramid 146 meters high for himself, 400 meters from the location where the Sphinx was later built. Hafer also built his own pyramid, but it is 3 meters shorter than his father's and 400 meters away from the Sphinx. Reynal found evidence linking the Sphinx to Pharaoh Hafr, dating back to 1853. That year, a French archaeologist named Auguste found a life size statue of Havel carved from black volcanic stone near the Sphinx. Near the statue is the remains of a building, later known as temple valley. In addition, Augustus also found a specially paved stone path, connecting the temple Valley and the temple next to the Hafr pyramid. In 1925, another French archaeologist Emil barez excavated another ancient architectural relic in front of the Sphinx, known as the Sphinx temple.
This evidence shows that Pharaoh Hafr arranged a great architectural plan, including the Sphinx, his own pyramids and temples, but many archaeologists still insist that the Sphinx was built by Khufu. Until 1980, Reiner hired a young German geographer Tom eggner, who proved in a new way that the Sphinx belonged to Pharaoh Hafr's series of buildings. After examining the rock samples of the Sphinx and the Sphinx temple, Renard and Tom found many fossil samples. Based on the identification of these fossils, they found that many of the stones used to build the temple walls were chiseled from the huge stones that carved the Sphinx, Obviously, the craftsmen used ropes and pulleys to pull the huge stones remaining from the carving of the Sphinx to the site of the Sphinx temple for "waste utilization".
So it seems that Hafr incorporated the pyramids, sphinxes and temples into a unified architectural plan, but who carried out this immortal plan? In 1990, an American tourist fell off his horse 800 meters away from the Sphinx and his horse tripped over a low wall. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian antiquities society and archaeological authority, then investigated and found a cemetery of the ancient Egyptian kingdom. There are 600 people buried here. In the center is the tomb of the supervisor. There are epitaphs indicating the name and identity of the dead. Around them are the tombs of ordinary workers without identification. It was near the cemetery that Reynal discovered his lost city nine years later. Since the 1980s, ancient buildings have often been found here. Reinar and Hawass have been very concerned about it, but they didn't realize that it was a spectacular residential area as large as 10 football fields until they completed precise mapping and mapping. The construction age can be traced back to the reign of hafra. The center of the residential area is a barracks made of four long mud bricks. Like ordinary houses, there are colonnades, sleeping platforms and kitchens, but the scale is larger than ordinary houses and can accommodate 50 people to sleep side by side. Reiner said that the barracks can accommodate 1600 to 2000 workers, and if the sleeping platform is a double-layer structure, it can accommodate more people. The diet of the workers showed that they were not slaves. Reinar found the remains of male animals under the age of 2 in the site, indicating that the food of the workers was mainly beef. Reinar believes that it is likely that ordinary Egyptians built the Sphinx and its surrounding relics by rotation in the form of state taxes, servitude or enfeoffment.
45 centuries ago, mankind lacked iron. The Egyptians mainly used stone hammers and copper chisels to complete more detailed work. The researchers found that the copper chisel could not withstand beating. After only a few times, it began to dull and needed to be replaced frequently. Taken together, it is estimated that each worker can chisel down one cubic foot of stone per week. At this rate, 100 workers can complete the Sphinx in three years.

The face of the Sphinx is better preserved than that of most ancient statues, but its nose has been completely damaged after thousands of years of weathering and man-made destruction. According to an Arab historian in 1402, a Sufi fanatic deliberately destroyed his face in order to "correct religious fallacies". However, there are still many clues to what the statue looked like in the first place. In the early 19th century, people excavated the fallen stone beard and Cobra headdress representing the Egyptian monarchy. There are still residual red dyes on the stone face, which makes archaeologists speculate that the whole face was once red, while yellow and Malachite blue pigments were also found in other parts, which makes rennar suspect that the statue was originally dressed in gaudy colors.

This is an eternal mystery. Can you carve a thing with the image of your own face to protect your own mausoleum without being laughed at? That obviously reduced the value of the Pharaoh. In ancient mythology, the Sphinx is a monster born of a giant and a demon Snake: the head of a man and the body of a lion, with wings, named Sphinx. Sphinx is cruel by nature. He learned many riddles from the Muse of wisdom and often stayed at the intersection. If every pedestrian wants to pass, he must guess riddles. If he guesses wrong, he will eat them all, and countless people will suffer. Once, a king's son was eaten by the Sphinx. The king was very angry and offered a reward: "Whoever can subdue him, give him the throne!" The brave young dipus went to take revenge at the king's call. He walked and walked until he came to the intersection guarded by the Sphinx. "Boy, guess the riddle before you let me pass." Sphinx gave him the hardest guess. "Can make a sound, walk on four legs in the morning, walk on two legs at noon, and walk on three legs at night. What's this?" "This is a man." The clever dipus guessed it quickly. Dipus won, and he solved the mystery; But Sphinx refused to admit defeat and gave dipus a riddle: "what grows first, then becomes shorter, and finally becomes longer?" Dipus guessed the "shadow" of the answer. So Sphinx revealed his true shape and committed suicide to redeem his sin.
It is said that the Sphinx was carved according to the shape of Sphinx. In fact, the Sphinx is not unique to Cairo, Egypt. Only this one in Cairo is the largest and the oldest. However, the large and small Sphinx (or ox head, sheep head, etc.) carved everywhere are squatting. The difference is that some individuals also raised a claw.