# The Great Sphinx of Giza

> About 73 m long and 20 m high, cut from Members I to III of the Mokattam Formation. The nose was lost before the fifteenth century; al-Maqrizi blamed a…

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**ART** 0CTWSZHE0B7D·Artifact · object

# The Great Sphinx of Giza

PhotographCC BY-SA 3.0Carved in the reign of Khafre on the conventional dating, about 2550 to 2520 BC

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The Great Sphinx of Giza: photograph

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About 73 m long and 20 m high, cut from Members I to III of the Mokattam Formation. The nose was lost before the fifteenth century; al-Maqrizi blamed a Sufi iconoclast in 1378. The body was cleared and repaired many times, so the original carved surface is visible only in places beneath the cladding.

MusikAnimal. CC BY-SA 3.0

## Copies 6

**Map** Ulrich Kapp for the ARCE Sphinx Project · opencontext.org · 1979/1983 · CC-BY-4.0Primary source: [ARCE Sphinx Project 1979-1983 Archive (Open Context)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CTWRVD671KF/arce-sphinx-project-1979-1983-archive-open-context)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://opencontext.org/projects/141e814a-ba2d-4560-879f-80f1afb019e9)

**Model** Giza Project at Harvard University · giza.digitalhumanities.fas.harvard.edu · non-commercial with citationPrimary source: [3D model of the Sphinx (primary model), GPH_3D_Sphinx](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CTWS10W2AZE/3d-model-of-the-sphinx-primary-model-gph-3d-sphinx)2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://giza.digitalhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/3dmodels/71021/full/)

**Model** Supreme Council of Antiquities with Mubarak City for Scientific Research · maptek.com · 2010~ · not released1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.maptek.com/i-site/i-site-makes-most-accurate-3d-model-of-the-sphinx-ever/)

**Photograph** MusikAnimal · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY-SA 3.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Sphinx_of_Giza_May_2015.JPG)

**Photograph** Mark Lehner · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY 4.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Top-down_plan_of_the_rump_of_the_Great_Sphinx_of_Giza.tif)

**Photograph** Mark Lehner · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY 4.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Profile_and_elevation_of_rump_passage_of_the_Sphinx.tif)

## Where it was made

[The Great Sphinx](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CTWS1RA4RB3/the-great-sphinx) · Rock-cut statue

## Sources 1

- [Reconstructing the Sphinx](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CTWRSPG31HX/reconstructing-the-sphinx)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Great Sphinx of Giza [Artifact ART0CTWSZHE0B7D]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0CTWSZHE0B7D
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Key

**ART** 0CTWSZHE0B7D

Kind

Object

Held by

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (in situ)

Dated

carved in the reign of Khafre on the conventional dating, about 2550 to 2520 BC; cladding of several phases from the New Kingdom to the twentieth century

Licence

CC BY-SA 3.0

Place

[The Great Sphinx](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CTWS1RA4RB3/the-great-sphinx)

Part of

[Great Sphinx of Giza](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx)

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