The Great Sphinx Giza

The Great Sphinx, Giza is something I found to be very interesting during my reading this week. I can remember being a young child in elementary school in social studies learning about The Great Sphinx, Giza and how it was created it amazed me then as much as it does today. The Great Sphinx, Giza is built of limestone on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt was built for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khafre during his reign. The thing that amazes me about this monument is trying to wrap my head around how the artist of that time created The Great Sphinx with just hand tools. In todays time if something like this was created it wouldn’t be as amazing because of the modern engineering and the technology of our time makes making monuments like this