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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Great Sphinx

The Sphinx is one of the most famous landmarks in the whole world. It is located in Giza, Egypt, which is a country that is found in Africa. The Sphinx is a massive sculpture that is supposed to have the head of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings of a bird. There are plenty of other smaller Sphinxes in Egypt but the great Sphinx is the most famous one. The length of the Sphinx's body is 72.55 Meters wide and it is 20.22 Meters tall. So many years ago the Great sphinx used to be complete and have all of it's facial parts and body parts but now it does not. It is currently missing it's nose, it's ritual beard, and it's lower left ear. Not only that but the Sphinx eye's are pecked out. The Sphinx's neck is also slowly falling apart from the hot and sandy wind. Limestone keeps falling off as well. The Great Sphinx is slowly falling apart, but yet it's still a famous landmark that will stay in Egypt for a very long time.
What would you do if you could help the Great Sphinx from not falling apart???

If you would like to know more visit the video

A frontal view of the Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt
 
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2014 at 7:27 PM

    I don't think that there are many ways to fix the Sphinx. If they try to decipher the hieroglyphics they might be able to fix the Sphinx but I think that it is kind of too old to fix. It came from the Ancient Egyptian time period around the time of Cleopatra. It was a very long time ago. I didn't even know that there was a beard on the Sphinx. In some future years, who knows, we might be able to restore the Sphinx.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2014 at 12:39 PM

    I wouldn't want to fix the great sphinx because it is a great part of our history. I would be so worried about it being damaged more than it already is. I think that a lot of people have this fear and don't want to risk it. It would be amazing if we could restore the broken pieces of the sphinx in the future, like Amesha said.

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