The Sphinx is the protector of the three pyramids

Sphinx statue  

Colossal statues are one of the hallmarks of ancient Egyptian civilization, and the Great Sphinx of Giza is the most famous of them. Where the Sphinx is one of the largest statues in the world, and it features the body of a lion and a human head, and its head is adorned with the royal head cover, which is a statue carved from one piece of limestone

  According to some estimates, it took about three years to be built by 100 workers using stone hammers and copper chisels, and most history scholars believe that the Sphinx belongs to the fourth dynasty, which was added by Khafre, yet some believe that it was built by Khafre's older brother, Djedefre. To commemorate their father, Khufu, and these scholars point out that the face of the Great Sphinx bears more resemblance to Khafri, than it was rumored that Khufu himself built the statue.

The Great Sphinx captured the imagination of travelers and explorers for thousands of years, even in ancient Egyptian times. During the Eighteenth Dynasty (1550-1295 BC), it became seen as a manifestation of the sun god, and it was called Horus im sister "Horus." In the horizon, “King Amenhotep II (circa 1427-1400 BC) built a temple next to the statue of the Sphinx he dedicated to this god, and his son Thutmose IV (1400-1390 BC) built a huge plate between his front feet, which It is called the dream board, in which he recorded a wonderful event.

!Who broke the nose of the Sphinx

Due to his great moral value, many tried to exploit the incident of his broken nose to spread rumors and gossip about who sabotaged him and broke his nose, which we see today in his current image, and some even accused the British and German armies that entered Egypt during the first and second world wars, but experts denied these rumors according to images of the statue without a nose since 1886

 

As for the accusation by the armies, Napoleon Bonaparte, of deliberately breaking the nose of the statue during the French campaign on Egypt in 1798, these accounts have been refuted based on the information of historians who have confirmed that the drawings left by the European explorer, Frederick Lewis, in 1737 of the statue, showed it without a nose in a similar situation To its current state

 

Also, the account of an Egyptian historian, from the fifteenth century AD, lied to those rumors, as it claimed that the one who destroyed the statue was a fanatical Sufi person named, Muhammad fasting eternal, and as a punishment for his action, the locals in 1378 beat him to death