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All About The Great Sphinx mysteries:

The Great Sphinx MysteriesThe Great Sphinx is a large man headed lion that was carved from a mound of natural rock. is the national symbol of Egypt, It has inspired the imaginations of artists, poets, adventurers, scholars and travelers for centuries and According to the orthodox Egyptology is have been built by the 4th Dynasty King Khafre dated by the standard Egyptian chronology to 2558-2532 BC.  The name 'sphinx' which means 'strangler' was first given by the ancient Greeks to a fabulous creature which had the head of a woman and the body of a lion and the wings of a bird. Great Sphinx mysteries: Along with the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Sphinx is one of the greatest enigmas and the most studied ancient monument of mankind’s history. The purpose of the great Sphinx is not known.

Some orthodox archaeologists assume that it was a memorial to a Pharaoh or that it functioned as some sort of talisman or guardian deity. No one knows how the Sphinx looked at its completion because both natural erosion and destruction at the hand of man have altered its original form. For many years now is a lot of legends about the Great Sphinx. The stories tell about the powers and mysteries of the sphinx. Some people even believe that there are hidden passageways or rooms underneath of the Sphinx. Question: Who shoot the nose off the Sphinx? It was the Turks who purportedly shot it off during target practice? or Napoleon? nobody knows really.


 


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0 # Mario 2010-07-15 18:15
Number of mysteries surround the Great Sphinx, perhaps even more than the pyramids.
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