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Retweet: bit.ly Follow me on TWITTER HERE twitter.com Join me on FACEBOOK HERE www.facebook.com T-Shirt by teesbytina.com http to request words. Let’s look at the Great Sphinx in Egypt. Hello my dear students, today we are going to pop over to Northern Africa to a country called Egypt so that we can stop in and visit an old friend, the Great Sphinx of Egypt! The Great Sphinx of Egypt is 260 feet long, 20 feet wide and 65 feet tall making it the largest free standing sculpture in the world, and it was carved out of a single piece of limestone! But how and when did this sphinx get built? What the heck is a sphinx in the first place? And why is it missing its nose? HotForWords pops over to Egypt to investigate the Sphinx! The Great Sphinx of Egypt is part of the funerary or relating to the funeral of Egyptian pharaoh Khafre, who was the builder of the second Giza Pyramid. This pyramid is built on higher ground than the other two pyramids of the Giza group, so it appears to be the tallest one of the group though it is actually between 2 to 20 feet shorter than the Great Pyramid, built by his dad. Khafre, also known as Khafra, Chephren or Cephrenes, reigned between 2558 and 2532 BC, more than 4000 years ago! In addition to building the pyramid, it is believed that he also built the Great Sphinx. What exactly is a sphinx? Well, in Greek mythology as sphinx is a winged creature with the body of a lion and the head of a woman. When the Great Sphinx was excavated in Egypt, it …