The Great Sphinx is a limestone statue located on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, carved around 4,500 years ago. It has the body of a lion and the head of a man, believed to be the pharaoh Khafre who commissioned it. The Sphinx is part of a larger complex that includes temples and causeways, and is located near the Giza Pyramids. Though its nose was destroyed long before Napoleon's time, legends say he had a cannon shoot it off. The Sphinx was likely carved to guard and embody the spirit of the pharaoh, and some evidence suggests the climate was wetter when it was first built.

1. The Great Sphinx

2. Over 4,500 years ago, the Great
Sphinx was carved out of a quarry on
the Giza Plateau.
It has the body of a lion and the head
of a man.

3. It is part of a larger complex with Temples
and causeways.

4. It is also part of the much larger complex
containing the Giza Pyramids.
Sphinx
Great Pyramid
Pyramid of Khafre
Pyramid of Menkaure

5. It is speculated the head bears the visage of
Khafre, the ruler of Egypt who commissioned
it.
Legend is that Napoleon had a cannon shoot
the nose off, but the reality is that it was
missing by the time he got there, destroyed by
Turks over a hundred years before.

6. This is how it is imagined to have
originally looked.

7. Between the paws is the “dream stella”, which
is inscribed with a story, that Thutmosis, if he
cleared the sand from the Sphinx, would
become king of Egypt.

8. Some have claimed that the Sphinx has been
weathered by rain. This is open to debate, but
climatologists have recently revealed it is
possible that for its first 500 years, the weather
was much wetter on the Giza Plateau.

9. While we think we know why the Sphinx was
carved and the mighty Pyramids built, there
are always possibilities.
Especially for a fiction writer.

10. Area 51: The Sphinx
Dr. Lisa Duncan and Special Forces officer Mike
Turcotte know better than anyone that no secret
is safe for long—especially one that offers untold
power. Case in point: no sooner does Turcotte’s
elite Area 51 team uncover a dormant alien ship
in earth orbit than a group of alien-human hybrids
seizes it and uses its technology to commandeer
a satellite array bristling with nuclear missiles.
Now they’re demanding that humankind hand
over the key to an ancient stash of alien
technology…or watch an entire continent be
reduced to atomic rubble.
Doom seems certain, as the required key is
believed lost to the ages—until an anthropologist
discovers the first of many clues to its hiding
place. As Duncan and Turcotte race to reach the
key—and the powerful treasure it can unlock—
ahead of their alien foes, the quest leads them
deep into a deadly maze within the Great Sphinx
of Giza. The prize? Nothing less than the
legendary Ark of the Covenant.

11. OVER 3 MILLION SOLD. Screenplay by
creator of Alien

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