Carved from the living rock of the Giza plateau, the Sphinx joins a lion's body to a king's head in the striped nemes headcloth. It is the oldest known monumental sculpture in Egypt, made in the Old Kingdom under Khufu or his son Khafre. No contemporary inscription names it, and whose face it bears is still disputed.
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Between the paws stands the Dream Stele of Thutmose IV, who cleared the sand around 1400 BCE. The nose was prised off with rods or chisels, not shot away by Napoleon's troops.
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