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Of all Egypt's monuments, none
is as majestic and haunting as the Great Sphinx. It was named as such
by the Greeks, because of its physical similarity to a mythical creature
with a lion's body and woman's head who devoured passers-by unable to
answer her riddle. Arabs know it as Abu el-Hol (Father of Terror). Carved
out of a limestone outcropping in front of the Giza Pyramids, the Sphinx
is 50 meters long and 22 meters high. Conventional archaeologists attribute
its construction to the IV Dynasty pharaoh Khafre (who built one of the
three pyramids behind it), but others suggest it may be much older.
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