Great Sphinx statue of Giza (Abu AL Houl)

Great Sphinx statue of Giza (Abu EL Houl)

Sphinx is a statue of a mythical creature with the body of a lion and a human head is located on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest known huge sculptures, with a length of 73.5 m, width 6 m, and a height of 20.22 m. Believed that the ancient Egyptians built in the reign of Pharaoh Khafre (2558-2532 BC), the builder of the second pyramid at Giza.

The differing views as represented by this statue, the old opinion that represents King Khafre combining the power of Assad and human wisdom. Some archaeologists believe that King Cheops is built where the face of the Sphinx-like statue of Cheops, like statues of Khafre). Indeed, the question of who is the builder of the Sphinx still open for research. It is said that it represents the sun god "Hur - mother - sister", and evidence of this temple, which faces the statue, where he was being a religious ritual. This has been firmly in the minds of Egyptians throughout their history, where they saw a statue of the god "Hur - mother - sister," and him need to worship him and live his most famous paintings these paintings those of King Thutmose IV of the Eighteenth Dynasty , known to dream board. Either the name "Sphinx" and derivation linguistic him, it seems that the origin is due to the modern state when he stepped some of the Canaanites to the Giza area and saw the statue, which represents the god "Hur" and they associate with God they have is "Huron" then character this name to "Horona" character turn into "Hall" where the base substitution between ha and distraction in the Arabic language. The word "Abu" Phippdoa they perversion of the ancient Egyptian word "Bo", which means "place", in which case it becomes name meaning "place of the god Hor", the ancient Greeks to reproduce their feminine version of that object.She also appeared creatures with similar ideas in several other civilizations, including South and Southeast Asia. As Sphinx occupied a place in the European decorative art of the Renaissance began. Moving the statue to the east and had the statue long nose with French occupation of Egypt tried to destroy the statue gun they could not only destroy the nose of our time trying to propagate education and Egyptian media before the revolution, but actually it's the oldest incident documented historically to settle Pharaonic monuments in the writings of Egyptian Maqrizi in the fifteenth century AD attribute this break to sabotage someone called Mohammed fasting eternity, a mystic fanatic and came in homilies and mind to mention speeches and effects first part 26/167, where he wrote: "In our time was someone who knows Sheikh Mohammed fasting age of inter mystical khanqah happy happy validity has about eighty years and seven hundred to change things from the evils and walked to the Pyramids and the distorted face of the Sphinx and Hosh is today . "
Some pictures of this magnificent statue :-