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QuestionWhere it stands
Most likelyIt was made as the king, with a human head on a lion's body, as part of his pyramid complex; it was…
Most likelyThe head is as first carved; its size reflects the block of Member III rock available and a deliberate layout
Most likelySalt crystallisation, clay swelling and wet-sand burial, with flooding and wind on exposed parts, produced…
Most likelyThe layer is a depositional facies (coral-rich shoal-reef limestone) or a picking choice, and its thickness…
Most likelyThe Sphinx was carved under Khafre, about 2550 to 2520 BC, in the same quarrying operation that supplied the…
Most likelyThe body was a reserved block left by cutting a U-shaped ditch into a sloping bedrock bench; no free-standing…