Great Sphinx of Giza Traditional Cache
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Cemetery hide along OH 602 in Crawford Co. No need to cross any grave sites to get to the cache. Should be any easy find. BYOP.
This cache was placed as part of THE NCOG SPHINX SPRING SPREE! a road rally event on May 7, 2011.
The Great Sphinx of Giza: (The Terrifying One), commonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx (a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head) that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. It is the largest monolith statue in the world, standing 73.5 metres (241 ft) long, 6 metres (20 ft) wide, and 20.22 m (66.34 ft) high.[1] It is the oldest known monumental sculpture, and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom in the reign of the pharaoh Khafra (c. 2558–2532 BC).
The Sphinx is located beside the pharaoh's Valley Temple and the covered causeway that led to the Mortuary Temple beside the pyramid. It was sculpted from an outcropping of limestone and represented the sun god; its features were probably those of Chephren, the builder of the second pyramid at Giza. While it has a god's face, it has a lion's body.
The one-metre-wide nose on the face is missing. Legend has it that the nose had been broken off by a cannon ball fired by Napoleon's soldiers during the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798. However, the story is only legend as sketches of the Sphinx by Frederick Lewis Norden made in 1737 and published in 1755, prior to the French invasion, illustrate the Sphinx already without a nose. The Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi, writing in the 15th century, attributes the vandalism to Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a fanatic Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose.
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