Great Sphinx of Giza

The Great Sphinx of Giza is a large half-human, half-lion Sphinx statue in Egypt, on the Giza Plateau at the west bank of the Nile River, near modern-day Cairo. It is one of the largest single-stone statues on Earth, and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians in the 3rd millennium BC. It is the earliest known monumental sculpture.The Great Sphinx was believed to stand as a guardian of the Giza Plateau, where it faces the rising sun. It was the focus of solar worship in the Old Kingdom, centered in the adjoining temples built around the time of its probable construction. Its animal form, the lion, has long been a symbol associated with the sun in ancient Near Eastern civilizations. Images depicting the Egyptian king in the form of a lion smiting his enemies appear as far back as the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt. During the New Kingdom, the Sphinx became more specifically associated with the god Hor-em-akhet (Greek Harmachis) or Horus at the Horizon, which represented the Pharaoh in his role as the Shesep ankh of Atum (living image of Atum). A temple was built to the northeast of the Sphinx by King Amenhotep II, nearly a thousand years after its construction, dedicated to the cult of Horemakhet.

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[powderstash]

wow, mystical.  I'm going in the next month before it gets too hot. Oops, too late. I'm going anyway!

[juril001]

Have fun! Drink lots of water

[HipHopJun]

DID THE MUMMY TRY TO KILL YOU GUYS???

[juril001]

Yes but we survived. Only problem is that Brandon Fraiser is following us around now!

[Falishapattinson]

great place

[juril001]

Thanks for watching. I agree. It is a great place. We loved it.

[MasterBORRACHO]

Daniel Craig on the left at 1:11

[cmeshyne50]

@skofield2010 i believe that was debunked they have transcripts 300 years before napaloeon stating the nose was already gone a good video on the sphinx is called, riddles of the sphinx by nova you should check it out

[Alkhemist10]

TO KNOW - TO DARE - TO WILL- TO KEEP SILENT

[LordLarsaSolidor]

The Omega Project

The body of a lion and the head of a virgin

Leo and Virgo

[skofield2010]

@AnonymousDouche30 there are alot of stories about his nose and some of stories also saying it was during english colonization and your story which you mentioned one of them but there is no proof about it the nearset one for the truth it was during the Fench colonization because Napelion was afraid egyptian will worship Sphinx because that he want to destory it

[seapeddler]

@AnonymousDouche30 You know, it was Herodotus who discovered water marks 240 ft. up the side of the great pyramid. This was the result of the Great Flood which swept over the entire Giza plateau during the Atlantis cataclysm. So, deciding which 'historian' is telling the truth is like trying to lift the stones of Baalbek with a Case backhoe.

[seapeddler]

@AnonymousDouche30 The real Pharoahs were dolichocephalic giants. By placing enormous pressure on quartz crystals they were able to generate enough power for cities, and to fight inteplanetary wars via superluminal scalar waves emitted from the pyramid trio. What and how the 2 great pyramid wars were fought is still classified?

[seapeddler]

@AnonymousDouche30 The Arab Al Mamoun blasted into the pyramid looking for treasure. I really don't think the Arabs understood the pyramids function let alone the sphinxs'. Napolean was in Giza, so who knows ? Regardless of who desecrated what, the original head was Anubis, or a dogs' head, I believe. The blasted-off nose was of a Khemitian woman. After the Khemits dug out the Sphinz, they recarved a female head on it. Khemits were an African matriarchal setup.

[AnonymousDouche30]

@seapeddler Not true, The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century AD, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In AD 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was s

[AnonymousDouche30]

@skofield2010 Not true, The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century AD, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In AD 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism.

[skofield2010]

@ArtistBet it was because Napelion shoted it during the french colonizaion in Egypt