Great Sphinx Giza is a statue of a sphinx-shaped big half-human, half-lion, and that there are in Egypt, in The Giza, Nile River West Bank, near Cairo now. This is one of several statues in the world made from one piece of stone, and trust has been built by ancient Egyptians in the third millennium BC.The name used for the public to Ancient Egypt mention this statue is not known. The name "sphinx" used the name being taken from Greek mythology with the body of a lion, a female head, wings and a hawk, even though Egypt has a sphinx statue head men. The word "sphinx" comes from the Greek (Σφιγξ - Sphinx, from the verb σφιγγω - sphingo) which means the throttle, because the sphinx from Greek mythology does not oppress people who can answer questions mind-tekinya. For some people, held that this name change is a word from the ancient Egyptian language Shesep-ANKH, a name given to the noble statue of the Fourth Dynasty. Writings on the mid-century, the name balhib and bilhaw that refer to the Sphinx used, including by Egyptian historian Maqrizi, which suggest Coptic language preparation, but the term Arab-Egypt-Abu Al-Hôl, defined as the "Father terror," more widely used.
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