The Great Sphinx of Giza, Giza — carved from a single natural limestone outcrop around 2500 BC, almost certainly during the reign of Pharaoh Khafre, whose face it is thought to bear. At 240 feet long and 66 feet high, it is the largest monolithic sculpture in the world. Its missing nose was damaged by Mamluk soldiers in the 14th century AD; traces of red pigment suggest the entire face was once painted.
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