Great Sphinx of Giza

The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, carved with the body of a reclining lion and a human head generally believed to represent the pharaoh Khafre, built during the Old Kingdom's fourth dynasty around 2500 BC. Cut largely from a single outcrop of bedrock left after quarrying stone for nearby pyramid complexes, it measures about 73 meters long and 20 meters high, making it among the largest and oldest monumental sculptures known. Its face and headdress, the nemes, have suffered erosion and deliberate damage over millennia, including the loss of its nose, the cause of which remains debated. It stands near the causeway leading to the pyramid attributed to Khafre, one of the three Great Pyramids of Giza.