June 14, 2006
The Great Sphinx of Giza
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The Great Sphinx is a half-human statue with the face of a man and the body of a lion, with a small temple between its paws. Located on the west bank of the Nile River, near modern-day Cairo, Egypt, it is one of the largest single-stone statues in the world. It is commonly believed by Egyptologists to have been built by ancient Egyptians in the 3rd millennium BC. What mysteries associated with the statue are collectively known as the "riddle of the sphinx?"
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