The Sphinx is around 4,500 years old, and may be in danger of extinction due to the Islamic fanatics now ruling Egypt. It was Muslims who defaced the monument centuries ago, and there is talk now of blowing it up -- it is "pagan" and "idolatory" don't cha know.
I have often wondered what the Sphinx looked like 45 centuries back. Maybe it looked something like this.
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I hadn't heard about any talk of possibly blowing up the sphinx...but it makes sense. Those Afghan mountainside statues of the Buddha didn't survive too long once the Taliban took over, did they?
RSS, you are correct. The new Egyptian leaders have also discussed covering the Sphinx and the pyramids in wax. That's a lot of wax.
Why did you use "white" euro-centric features? I hardly doubt it looked anything close to that.
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