Assertion: sphinx | /r/HasProperty | built
Facets:
value: supposedly
type: DEGREE
value: during reign
type: TEMPORAL
value: sometime
type: TEMPORAL
value: probably
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: LONG AFTER IT WAS BUILT.
text: It’s known from hieroglyphic texts that Khafre’s father, Khufu, built the 481-foot-tall Great Pyramid, a quarter mile from where the Sphinx would later be built.
text: Might it be that the Sphinx was actually Anubis when it was first built, and then its face was altered later to suit the desires of those behind the alteration?
text: Despite many Egyptologists' claims to the contrary no-one knows for sure when the Sphinx was built or by whom.
text: Egyptologist’s dismissed Schoch’s theory as highly flawed; pointing out that the once prevalent great rain storms over Egypt had stopped long before the Sphinx was built.
text: So the Sphinx was probably built to honor the Egyptian sun god, Re.
text: According to the Ancient Egypt Research Association (AERA), the architectural and geological evidence both support the conclusion that the Sphinx and its adjoining temple were built along with the rest of Khafre’s pyramid complex, and were in fact among the last of the monuments to be completed.
text: That means the 'prolonged water erosion' took place between 3150 and Khufu's reign (2589) - when he says the Sphinx must already have been built.
text: No one is certain when the Sphinx was built nor what it represents, though many theories about its origin and purpose have been noted.
text: Some say that the Sphinx is more in the style of Pharaoh Khufu, Khafre’s father, and was therefore built sometime during his reign (2589 – 2566 B.C.).
text: In a further complication of the mystery surrounding the origin of the pyramids and Sphinx, the authors claim that the head of the Sphinx has been changed since it was first built and that while the body is made out of limestone the head is carved from a manmade substance.
text: However, some recent studies have suggested that the Sphinx was built as long ago as 7000 B.C.
text: Terence Guardino agrees with this dating and suggests that the Sphinx was built to honor the Age of Leo.
text: All names given to the Sphinx came much later than it was actually built.
text: The implications of erosion caused by water–in an area that had not seen significant rainfall since before the Sphinx was supposedly built–opened up exciting new questions.
text: Then in 2015, a Norwegian Geoscientist named Jørn Christiansen analysed the weathering of the Sphinx and found evidence suggesting it was caused in places before the Sphinx was actually built.
text: When Taharqo requested the sphinx of himself to be built, he decided it would stay in the newly renovated Temple of Amun.
text: It still captivates the imaginations of people, 4,500 years after it was built.