2-651-872 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Cairo. For close upon 5000 years the enigmatic Sphinx of Gizeh, a human-headed couchant lion. Has gazed the Nile Valley', c1920. The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone monument located on the west bank of the Nile and dated to the Old Kingdom 4th dynasty, during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafre (c. 2558û2532 BC). From Geographical Magazine, Volume 2, c1920.