Location:
Giza - 9 miles from downtown Cairo .
Egypt`s most enigmatic figure and the guardian of the royal necropolis ,the sphinx or the human head joined to a lion body a style of combing intelligence with power is 240 feet long and 72 feet high some Egyptologists believe it dates back to time of king Chephren builder of the second pyramid while some others believe it is alot older than that ,Sphinx is still very mysterious especially after the discovery of 300 underground chambers under its body! |