HOW was the Sphinx built?
The Great Sphinx of Giza is probably the world’s best known relic from the distant past. It is shrouded in mystery. The Sphinx is not built with quarried blocks like the pyramids and temples it guards, but carved out of the living bedrock. Its makers gave it a man’s head (some say it’s a woman) and the body of a lion. It is 66′ high and an impressive 240′ long. It has the most extraordinary expression, like a hundred Mona Lisas all rolled into one. And its eyes gaze forever at the distant horizon due east, at the equinox point, at something not of this world but beyond it, in the sky. Something, perhaps, that is reflected or “frozen” in the essence and age of the Sphinx. Nothing can prepare a first-time visitor for the awe-inspiring experience of meeting the Great Sphinx face to face. No matter who you are, no matter what your disposition and temperament, the Great Sphinx will not leave you unmoved. John A. West knows this phenomenon well. He has stood in the shadow of this great statu
