The Great Sphinx

One of the most mysterious structures found in today’s world is the Great Sphinx of Egypt, located on the outskirts of the hustling city of Giza. Many archeologists and explorers spend their entire careers trying to answer many unknowns about the Sphinx such as, “Who built the Sphinx,” and “Why does it exist?” Although these questions do not have clear answers, there are many theories that try to crack the mysteries of the Great Sphinx.

The Great Sphinx has fascinated people from around the world for thousands of years because of its mysteriousness. One reason on why the Sphinx is so baffling is because its builder is unknown. Standing at a towering 73 meters long and 20 meters high, the Sphinx, which is larger than a six-story building,

One rumor of what happened to the beloved nose of the Sphinx is that the great French military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, used the Sphinx as target practice when he arrived in Egypt in 1789 CE. There are many flaws to this theory though, the first of which being that pictures drawn during the eighteenth century show the Sphinx without its nose, meaning that the nose was gone before Napoleon had arrived.another flaw with this theory is that Napoleon was a history fanatic, and would never destroy a great monument of history. Some people also blame the absence of the Sphinx’s nose on the Turkish, claiming they shot the nose off instead of Napoleon, but this has also been proven to be erroneous. The explanation given by researchers, which is the most reasonable out of all the claims, is that the Sphinx’s nose has been victim to erosion. Over the centuries, the Sphinx has been discovered, lost, discovered again, lost, and re-discovered a number of times. Each time the Sphinx had been excavated, it made the Sphinx subject to the wrath of nature’s storms and weather, causing the Sphinx to decay slowly. This process would be stalled once the Sphinx was completely submerged in sand, except the Sphinx never stayed buried forever. Every time the the Sphinx had been re-discovered, it was vulnerable to more erosion. Scientists and Egyptologists alike both state that erosion, given as many centuries as it has been, could have caused the destruction of the Great Sphinx’s