There are thousands of sphinx statues in various sizes that have been found in ancient ruins.
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The Avenue of the Sphinxes connects Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple
Commonly sphinxes, sometimes sphinges.
The Sphinx is an ancient Egyptian construction dating back several thousand years. The Sphinx is a likeness of a feline with the face of a human male.
the sphinxes were built by Chephren, the son of Pharaoh Khufu or Khefre who built the great pyramid, as a symbol of power and authority.
There are many Sphinxes in Egypt, many of them worn faces of actual rulers. The most known of them was a target practice for french army some very long time ago, so it got its nose shot off and there is still another canonball sitting in the face.