Video shows Egypt's Great Sphinx
I’m an Egyptian American who studied in Israel: We can’t let Hamas kill peace along with peacemakersScientists believe they have finally figured out how, exactly, the Great Sphinx was built in Egypt more than 4,500 years ago.
The researchers took mounds of soft clay with harder, less erodible material embedded inside to replicate the terrain in northeastern Egypt and then washed these formations with a fast-flowing stream of water to act as the wind.A Sphinx model was carved through an experiment that replicates the wind moving against once-shapeless mounds of clay, with harder material becoming the “head” of the lion and other features.In the end, the clay eventually resembled a Sphinx-like formation.
The experiment resulted in a lion’s “head,” an undercut “neck,” “paws” laid out in front on the ground and an arched “back.”
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