c1880 Sphinx Pendant

“The archaeological evidence suggests that the Great Sphinx was created around 2500 BC for the pharaoh Khafre, the builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza. The stones cut from around the Sphinx’ body were used to construct a temple in front of it, however neither the enclosure nor the temple were ever completed, and the relative scarcity of Old Kingdom cultural material suggests that a Sphinx cult was not established at the time.

In order to construct the temple, the northern perimeter-wall of the Khafre Valley Temple had to be deconstructed, hence it follows that the Khafre funerary complex preceded the creation of the Sphinx and its temple. Furthermore, the angle and location of the south wall of the enclosure suggests the causeway connecting Khafre’s Pyramid and Valley Temple already existed before the Sphinx was planned. The lower base level of the Sphinx temple also indicates that it doesn’t pre-date the Valley Temple.” [X]

Lost Treasures of Egypt: Mysteries of the Sphinx (S2E02) (2020)

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Dovima by Richard Avedon, Egypt, 1951.

– Смотри: я сфинкс….

Can someone please translate this I feel like it’s important

“look: i’m a sphinx”

Full Moon looks down upon the Great Sphinx with Pyramid of Khafre in the background