Great Sphinx Of Ancient Efgypt

The great sphinx has stirred the imagination of poets, scholars, adventures and tourists for centuries. The first colossal of pharaonic Egypt. It presides majestically over the giza necropolis

It has a lion's body and the head of a king, which wears the royal nemes headcloth and false beard.

 

It is the largest monolith statue in the world, standing 73.5 meters (241 ft) long, 19.3 meters (63 ft) wide, and 20.22 m (66.34 ft) high. It is the oldest known monumental sculpture, and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafra (ca. 2558–2532 BC).