Great Sphinx of Giza
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. The monument was sculpted from the limestone bedrock of the E
The Great Sphinx, seen in 2017
Before being defaced, the Great Sphinx possibly bore the face of Pharaoh Khafre, the builder of the second Pyramid at Giza
Natural rock formation at Farafra, Egypt
The New Kingdom Dream Stele between the paws of the Sphinx, 2009
Khufu
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Khufu, or Cheops, was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, reigning during the 26th century BC in the early Old Kingdom period. Khufu succeeded his father, Sneferu, as king. He is genera
Great Sphinx of Giza
…c. 2590–2566 BC) or Khafre (c. 2558–2532 BC). Scholars and Egyptologists believe the face of the Sphinx was carved to represent either the pharaoh Khufu or one of his sons, pharaohs Djedefre and Khafre, but a consensus has not been reached and the person(s) in whose likeness the Sphinx was carved remains…
The Statue of Khufu in the Cairo Museum
Statue of Sneferu, Khufu's father or stepfather
Portrait of Prince Rahotep
Wepemnofret, a son of Khufu, from the stela of his Tomb G 1201, c. 2585 BC