Sphinx
Subtitle: History Of A Monument
Contributors: David Lorton (Translator)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: October 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780801489549
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Subjects & Themes - Religious; History; History - General History; History: World; Ancient Egypt; Ancient - Egypt; Archaeology
First sentence: This book is devoted to an archetypal figure: the Great Sphinx of Giza, as it is habitually called to specify its location (Figure 1).