Great Sphinx of Giza is a large sphinx statue shaped half human and half lion found in Egypt, at Giza Plateau, the west bank of the Nile, near Cairo now. This is one of several of the world's largest sculpture made of one stone piece, and believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians in the third millennium BC.
The name used for the people of Ancient Egypt to refer to this statue was not known. The name 'sphinx' which is used is taken from the name of the legendary Greek creature with a lion's body, the head of a woman, and wings of an eagle, though Egyptian sphinxes have the head man. The word "sphinx" comes from the Greek (Σφιγξ - Sphinx, from the verb σφιγγω - sphingo) which means to strangle, "as the sphinx from Greek mythology strangled anyone incapable of answering her riddle. For some people, it is believed that this name is change the word from the ancient Egyptian language Shesep-ankh, a name given to royal statues in the Fourth Dynasty. In medieval writings, and bilhaw balhib name which refers to the Sphinx are used, including by Egyptian historian Maqrizi, who suggested the preparation of the Coptic language, but Arabic-Egypt Abul-Hol, which translates as "Father of Terror," more widely used. although the means "Father of Terror", sphinx is one of modern culture his day, and is the tourist area of interest.
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