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Topic: The Sphinx used to be just a lion

Anonymous A started this discussion 2 years ago #113,896

The head is way too small for the body. The lion's head was replaced with a Pharaohs head. Discuss.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 17 hours later[^] [v] #1,261,163

Nah, if you look at the type of rock it's carved from, if it was originally a lion's head (or a jackal's - another theory) and any bigger, it would have been very unstable and almost certainly would have broken off.

Also, no surviving Egyptian writings describe it as such.
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