About Abu Lahor

About Abu Lahor  

The EPG height of 18.4 meters
And long, 59 meters wide, 3,500-year-old Amra
Why built the Sphinx?
There are some inscriptions placed two kings of the ancient kings says that the Sphinx represents one of the forms of the sun machine, says the purpose of this statue removal of all kinds of evil
Ho about the cemetery's Pyramids
The Meaning of the word Sphinx Balfronah (Mr.)
Sphinx was re-discovery of the western world when the passage of Napoleon in Egypt in 1798, and there are quite a lot of sphinxes and around the world, mostly in Egypt and Giza
And some of them regarded son of the goddess of the Egyptian sun (Ra) and is thus represents strength and wisdom and was a symbol of the presence of Egypt's strong for centuries, but there is another kind of Sphinx of Egypt and will be in the form of a ram, and he continued to God is another (Amon)
He (Anubis) guard the cemetery and responsible for embalming

Carving Sphinx of rock hard basalt and maybe created for you to head the smallest of the body because the body was buried under the sand preferred to retain a coherent structured erosion desert factors unlike the head that was buried, and revealed a number of times over the centuries, the sand was removed from the body of the Sphinx completely in 1905 to reveal the beauty of this statue
Along a 15-m and up the full length to 45 m, height of the head 22:00, presentation 16:00, and because the statue formation of several layers, some smoother than the other has eroded some areas and other retained form and so it has lost a lot of the fine details of the original form

The most common theory is that King Khafre (2558-2532 BCE) of the fourth dynasty who ordered the construction of the Sphinx, Khafre is one of the sons of Khufu (the owner of the Great Pyramid) and there is a straight corridor between the Sphinx and pyramid East (the tomb of Chephren)

And is almost of the same age pyramid East uncle built in 2540, and some scientists have estimated the age of e-Hol between 7,000 to 10,000 years at the expense of the degree of erosion of the body and the head of erosion factors extreme desert and humidity