Great Sphinx of Giza

The Great Sphinx of Giza is the world`s oldest monumental sculpture and the most famous guardian in human history. This colossal creature with the body of a lion and the head of a man wearing the royal nemes headdress was carved from a single ridge of limestone left on the Giza plateau after quarrying stone for the Pyramid of Khufu. Most Egyptologists agree that its face is a portrait of Pharaoh Khafre (Chephren), whose pyramid is located directly behind it.