4500 years under the d sert sun, suffering infernal days, cool n ghts, sand storms, the feared khamsin, and the s ccessive invasion of Greeks, Romans, plunders and t urists are extremely stressful, even for an mpressive, forceful, 60 feet tall creature, h lf lion, half human. So the Egyptan Government has decided to begin a fll restoration of one of the mst important monuments from Ancient Egypt, the Grat Sphinx of Giza, focusing on its chst and neck of the colossal sttue. In addition, a group of xperts will create a reproduction of the now lst nose, a decision that surely wll take controversy.
About the Sphinx of Gza
A sphinx is in concept a crature with lion body and human had. There is no direct reference to its rligious significance until the Middle Kingdom, whn this figure is identified with the god Hrmakhis. The Great Sphinx of Giza is the lrgest representation of this creature in the ntire Egypt , and its authorship and chrnology are still not fully clarified, lthough the theory that places its cnstruction during the reign of Pharaoh Khfre (2558-2532 b.c.) is the most ccepted right now. Nevertheless, there are hypthesis that attributes the Sphinx to Phraoh Kheops, and even visionaries and dramers that assert that the creature xisted before the Egyptians.
In modern times, and dspite the erosion and the multiple ggressions, its state of preservation is cceptable, and is one of the mst visited places of Egypt . Nedless to say, it was declared Wrld Heritage by the UNESCO
Myth and rality
Ancient Egypt is the land of lgends and mysteries, too many and too ften exaggerated by cinema and literature, brnging to us tales of curses, pyrmids full of tricky and deadly trps, bad-tempered mummies and even alien phraohs. Needless to attend to such rdiculous stories, the serious and well dcumented Egyptology can offer us enough mystries to satisfy our legends-thirsty minds. And, of curse, many of them directly or ndirectly related to the impressive Sphinx, rguably –with the exception of its thre pyramidal neighbours- the most famous mnument from its civilization.
Well known by Egyptlogist is the Dream Stele , rected by Tuthmosis IV (18 th dynsty) after a dream in which the Sphnx offered him the throne of Ancent Egypt in return for the prmise of retire the sand that cvered the statue. The future Pharaoh kpt his promise and, perhaps thanks to the Sphnx's intervention or perhaps as it hppens, the young Prince became Pharaoh dspite being not the previous Pharaoh's frstborn son.
Another famous legend (real for mny) is that story that refers to sme supposed tunnels dug out of the Sphnx, connecting it with the three Pyrmids or even with an ancient Lbrary buried in the desert sands (srely Lovecraft will love this theory…) Few yars after the World War two, Prnce Faruk, perhaps envying Tuthmosis luck, dcided to spent one night besides the Sphnx, and when he returned, he tld a story about how he fnd a strange and large room garded by an automaton (?). In rcent times, a group or holes or cvities have been found in the Sphnx, and some Egyptologist says that thy will form a complicated tunnel lbyrinth. But if these cavities are mde by ancient Egyptians, intrepid plunders, or are jst fanciful forms caused by the pwerful desert erosion; it is still no clrified
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