#great sphinx

[illustratus]

The Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx by Carl Werner

[beardedmrbean]

[nemfrog]

The Sphinx and The Great Pyramid. Treasure spots of the world. 1875.

Getty Research Institute via the Internet Archive

From a book uploaded by associate-melody-levin

[gentlemensarts]

[dazed-cherry]

📍Great Sphinx of Giza | Egypt

[thererisesaredstar]

Yuri Gagrin in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza during his visit to Egypt (1962)

[history-for-magpies]

There's a Tumblr post that does the rounds pretty often about how Ancient Egypt lasted so long that even the Ancient Egyptians were doing Ancient Egyptian archaeology. And that is true and fascinating, so here's a bit more detail!

Perhaps the most famous example of the Ancient Egyptians recovering their own ancient history is that of the Great Sphinx of Giza. By the time of Thutmose II of the 18th Dynasty (around the 1400s BCE), the Sphinx was almost completely covered in sand. The area had been abandoned and left to decay and disappear for at least 600 years before Thutmose II had its paws excavated, and the Spinx was about 1,100 years old at that time.

Later, in the 19th Dynasty (1200s BCE), we have Prince Khaemwaset, son of Ramesses II, who is often referred to as "the first Egyptologist". He cleared out and restored several monuments around Giza and Saqqara - including the Pyramid of Unas, a statue of King Khufu's son Kawab, and the Step Pyramid of Djoser - which were already, at the time, about 1,200 years old.

[tenshiharmonia]

I was browsing through the Paranatural tag when I saw a post talking about a certain "Sphinx of Crimes" that Zack Morrison apparently hinted at on their Patreon page, and it made me think. Assuming that this Sphinx is the antithesis of the Sphinx of Rules, the same way the golden Sphinx seems to counteract the Sphinx of Truth, does it mean that the Sphinx of Pacts also has an opposite ? The Sphinx of Betrayal, maybe ? I don't know what I'm getting at, but I thought it was worth mentioning...