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One of the world’s oldest largest statues is The Great Sphinx at Giza. It is a large half-human and half-lion Sphinx statue in Egypt on the Giza Plateau along the west bank of the Nile River, which is the largest single limestone statues on Earth believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians somewhere between 2520 BCE and 2494 BCE. The name Sphinx was given based on the legendary Greek creature with the body of a lion with the head of a woman and the wings of an eagle. The Great Sphinx is a statue is 57 meters long, 6 meter wide and 20 meter height, with the face of a man and the body of a lion making it the largest single-stone statue in the world located on the west bank of the Nile River of the Giza pyramid . The Great Sphinx faces east with a small temple between its paws. The Great Sphinx was believed to stand as a guardian of the Giza Plateau where it faces the rising sun. Its lion form has long been a symbol associated with the sun. Some claims that missing one meter wide nose on the face was broken off by a cannon ball fired by Napoleon’s soldiers and another possible reason could be the action of 6000 years of wind and weather on the soft limestone. Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai |
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