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The Sphinx of Memphis or Alabaster Sphinx is a stone sphinx located near the remains of Memphis, Egypt. The carving is believed to have taken place between 1700 and 1400 BCE, which was during the 18th Dynasty. [1] It is not known which pharaoh is being honored and there are no inscriptions to supply this information.
The archaeological evidence suggests that the Great Sphinx was created around 2500 BC for the king Khafre, the builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza. [19] The Sphinx is a monolith carved from the bedrock of the plateau, which also served as the quarry for the pyramids and other monuments in the area. [20]
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From north to south: parts of the city of Giza, the Giza Necropolis, and part of the Giza plateau. The Giza Plateau (Arabic: هضبة الجيزة) is a limestone plateau in Giza, Egypt, the site of the Fourth Dynasty Giza pyramid complex, which includes the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex.
The Great Sphinx remains one of the world’s biggest mysteries, but a new study suggests that wind could have had a bigger hand in shaping it than originally thought.
A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century.
A sphinx (/ s f ɪ ŋ k s / SFINKS; Ancient Greek: σφίγξ, pronounced; [1] pl. sphinxes or sphinges) is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle. In Greek tradition, the sphinx is a treacherous and merciless being with the head of a woman, the haunches of a lion, and the wings of a bird.
The Alabama Museum of Natural History is the state's natural history museum, located in Smith Hall at the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The oldest museum in the state, it was founded in 1831. The exhibits depict the natural diversity of Alabama from the Age of Dinosaurs, the Coal Age, and the Ice Age.