The Great Sphinx By: Andy

          What is the great sphinx? The great sphinx is a statue of a lion combined with a human.The great sphinx was build by the pharow kafra, build to honor the gods and welcome them. This paper will focus, who build the great sphinx, Why the build the great sphinx, and why the great sphinx is half lion half human. Who build the great sphinx? The great sphinx was build by the pharaoh Kahafa. The great pharaoh kahafa build the sphinx about 2000B.C.E. This was about 2,000 years ago after there was a big problem that struck Egypt. Kahafa build the sphinx to make him self popular as a pharaoh and be remembered in the old kingdom


          Have you ever wonder why the great sphinx was build next to the pyramid of Giza. People think they build the sphinx to welcome the gods. At that time the sphinx was getting buried and it was losing it’s parts. The sphinx got buried up to the neck.

          Have you ever wonder why kahafa put a woman’s face on the sphinx? People say the face is from a beautiful woman that once khafra loved. At this time khafra was getting popular in the old kingdom. People say that khafra was only trying to be popular for himself. Khafra

          Have you ever wondered why they built the sphinx? The great sphinx was built to honor the gods and goddesses and to make Khafra popular. People say that sometimes Khafra was honest with Egyptians about his things. Some people say he was only trying to be popular and greedy. At this time Khafra was growing in crisis and he was losing his popularity. He was getting all the attention to himself as a pharaoh. Another reason why Khafra built the sphinx is because the wanted to honor the gods. The gods told khafra that he needed to be a little more careful about his popularity. At that time people were learning about how to build the sphinx. Another reason is that the sphinx would be the first half human half lion statue Khafra got inspired to get the statue a loin body is because ones he went hunting and he saw a lion lying beside him. Later on Khafra started to be inspired by animals. Then he said he will make a sculpture of a lion Combined with human.


          Why is the sphinx half lion half human? They made it half lion half human after a cultural Greek mythology because ancient Egyptians thought the sphinx was a powerful god. The sphinx had the face of a woman. The face of the sphinx is badly damage.

          The sphinx was built 2,000 B.C.E. years ago. It was build to honor the god’s .people thought the sphinx was a powerful god. The most important fact I learn about the sphinx was that the body of the sphinx is a lion because Khafra got inspired when he first saw the lion when he went hunting.