how many rocks were used for carving the sphinx in egypt
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The Sphinx is located in Egypt and it is constructed with over 5 million rocks.
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- Sphinx of Giza is located in Egypt and it signifies a 'mythical creature' with head of a 'human and body of a lion'.
- It is formed by the limestone in the Giza plateau.
- It is situated in the banks of river Nile.
- It has been built during the reign of pharaoh Khafre and it is thus believed that the face of the Sphinx resembles pharaoh Khafre.
- The structure is one of the oldest structures and it is built with over 5 million rocks which is layered one above another.
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The ‘statue of the sphinx’ in Egypt was carved from a ‘single piece’ of limestone.
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- The ‘Sphinx’ is a ‘mythical creature’ that is in the form of a statue made from limestone. It has a body of lion and ‘head of a human’ standing on the ‘Giza plateau’.
- The ‘Sphinx’ is carved from quarried limestone blocks which are the ‘natural limestone’ of the ‘Giza Plateau’ known as ‘Mokkatam Formation’.
- It carved from the layers lying on the ‘harder petrified reef’ and it is cut from the lower part of the ‘Mokkatam Formation’.
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