Labels:dialog box | mountain | rock | sculpture | sky OCR: Great Sphin Egypt About the Great Sphini The Great Sphirx, in the desert near Giza was carved from of limestone about 2550 B.C.E.It is about 240 feet (73 m) lone and 6F feet 20 m) high The sphirx mythological crea ture with the head f man and the body f a lion, asymbol f royal protection. The head af the Great Sphinx is believed to be portrait of King Khafre, the SPHINX pharaoh for whom the monument was built long quis pratec tion