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Ancient Sphinx recently found in in the Temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan, Egypt on 9/16/2018
Here's another https://i.imgur.com/w1PkBY4.jpg from http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/311655.aspx
MV: https://imgur.com/gallery/5UjgwAE
Donfacto
Not a sphincter here...it was a sex doll dungeon... Back then, and that's why circumcision was invented
ComcastLover
PiGiSpi
turns out the nose looked like a nose. What a revelation. But in all seriousness, this find is awesome
LuckyMan9
I'll wager it's not too old. Ptolemaic Kingdom probably.
RestlessVagabond
There are lots of sphinxes already out there. Just the big one is the famous, well-known one.
smashsouls
A fucking. NOSE.
steamypecker
Coolio, im in Egypt right now
scribetree
What’s “boop the snoot” in Hieroglyphics?
BloodofHeroes
Not like two different statues of the same thing couldn't look completely different. https://imgur.com/j113Rm4
ItsTime4it
What's under the left paw?
MarcoPolaris
You've disturbed the young in the nest. Bad move OP, you know how big the mom is.
NoCityBoy
she'll give me that stoney look and be out of there
phicho
Originaly it was believed to be a lion, 100 000 years ago. Heard that on jre podcast
Brocktooon
And here all this time I had no idea what a nose might look like on a face.
McFluffySundae
I imagine nose-like
Tbkssom
It looked like a nose.
ChanceVLuck
Thats so cool. Thanks for sharing this.
thegotis
Theories point to the Great Sphinx’s face being a replacement for an earlier, eroded face. Comparison to this Sphinx supports that theory.
TehGrimReaper
This sphinx is about half as old as the Great Sphinx, and looks to have been protected some from erosion. Not sure comparison means much.
thegotis
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Sphinx_of_Giza_9059.jpg
jesusisherelookbusy
freegallegal
Who would have thought it would have looked like a regular nose?
MechanicalFoundGhost
Wow, so many pyramidiots in imgur.
DeviatedPrevert
shocking, it looked like a nose
NoCityBoy
looks like an African nose, napoleon couldn't handle it not looking like his i guess.
TehGrimReaper
Nose was gone before Napoleon was born, though.
NoCityBoy
i must have learned a urban myth
TehGrimReaper
It's a common myth, yeah. There are sketches from 1755 showing it missing. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norden,_1755_(2).png
NZSheeps
https://imgur.com/oPDXU3x
potatnia
That was in the movie too, but they hid it under the Sphinx!
Ecothyrus
That's the history I learned!
NZSheeps
And it was such a pretty nose
18in32
Banana for scale missing — how big is this thing?
NoCityBoy
MayorMcWeed
Need a banana next to that thing
NoCityBoy
maninthedarkness
I reject your reality and substitute my own that says it is very large and found in a cavern.
TheVaal
Is the scale imperial or metric?
blackink73
Banana for scale?
heretotrollliberals
Well it is about 28cm in width
NoCityBoy
TehGrimReaper
Jawline doesn't look like the Great Sphinx's and this is apparently about 2000 years newer. I don't know that we can assume much similarity.
ButterfaceTaintClown
NoCityBoy
2000 years is long time in celestial cycle it's a wonder they were still praising Leo at all
NoCityBoy
You would assume made by the same people's blood line.
TehGrimReaper
Made by the same people, but not necessarily modeled on them. Later one could be modeled in part on their (by that point) Macedonian rulers.
NoCityBoy
do you have a theory on what it looked like?
NotACanadian
a lil point and then two nose holes
TehGrimReaper
If I had to guess, I'd assume similar to other Old Kingdom statues. Maybe more stylized or adjusted to fit the rock used. >
TehGrimReaper
Something like Khafra's nose, maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khafra
hsummer32
I've seen a theory that it was based on Pharoah Khufu as a tribute by either of his sons Djedefre or Khafre. So it may look similar to 1/2
hsummer32
The statues found of Khufu, though that is not confirmed. It is an intriguing idea though and I am personally a fan of the theory. 2/2
deepbullet
They also now think because of the relative small head size the Sphinx may have originally had lion's head but was later recarved as it is.
NoCityBoy
It did face leo in the night sky way back in the day.
skincancerisfun
It had a Leonardo Dicaprio face? I call ballocks on that one chief
mezaway
Graham Hancock has a theory that puts the construction of the Sphinx 10,500 BC. And he has some interesting evidence for this, as well.
PedanticAndIKnowIt
...but the position of the stars moves.
NoCityBoy
1 degree every 72 years.
PedanticAndIKnowIt
I meant more throughout the night, but feel like now I’m being stupid...
goddamnitPam
https://www.robertschoch.com/sphinx.html suggestion that the Sphinx is more like 7000 years old 1/2
goddamnitPam
This would put the Egyptians off by nearly 100 degrees. 2/2