Weather may have helped carve Sphinx
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK|Issue 69
The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of Egypt’s most famous landmarks.
Weather may have helped carve Sphinx

It is a huge limestone statue of a sphinx – a mythical creature with the head of a human and body of a lion – that experts think is around 4,500 years old. Famously, it is missing its nose.

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