Statues
There are a lot of
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statue
in big cities. Statues are often of famous people in history or something that’s important to the city or country.
Sometimes statues can be small, but other statues are very big. The Great Sphinx is an enormous statue in Giza in Egypt.
The Great Sphinx in Giza
Everything about the Great Sphinx is really big. Her eyes are almost two meters tall!
It’s made from stone. It’s very old. It’s near a big
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pyramid
on the
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bank
of the Nile River.
The statue has the body of a
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lion
and the head of a
.
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human
The Sphinx’s human head
Can you see the Sphinx is missing her nose? Nobody knows what happened to it!
It has
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paw
and a
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tail
The Sphinx’s tail
The Sphinx’s paws
If you look closely at the paws, you can see that they don’t look as old as her face. Sometimes new bits of stone are added because the desert wind is so strong and eats away the old stone.
It’s 73 meters long, and it’s 20 meters high from the
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base
to the
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top
of the head.
A lot of tourists travel to see this statue.
