Sphinx by Robert Temple - 9781913378158
Eglantyne Books
SphinxThe Ultimate Sphinx Book\nAuthor(s): Robert Temple\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Eglantyne Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Eglantyne Books\nISBN-13: 9781913378158, 978-1913378158\nSynopsis\nWhat was the Sphinx for, and what is the Sphinx?\nThe Sphinx's body is not a lion, but another creature.\nThe head was re-carved, and the Pharaoh's face can\nnow be identified.\n\nThere is a burial chamber inserted beneath the waist of\nthe Sphinx. 280 years' worth of published accounts of eye\nwitnesses who saw the chamber, all of them published here\nin full, prove its existence. It was sealed with cement in 1926.\nThe story of the Middle Kingdom pharaoh who uncovered\nthe Sphinx was still being told by the locals in 1482, as\nrecorded by a Dutch visitor. This is the longest recorded survival\nof folklore in world history, a tale which survived with its essential\nfacts intact for three thousand years.\n\nThe Nile in ancient times lapped near the feet of the Sphinx,\nand the Sphinx was lik.
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