The Sphinx
The Sphinx is an ancient limestone statue that Egyptians carved from the bedrock of the plateau in that area. Archaeologists think the Sphinx was created under the pharaoh Khafre in the 2500s BCE during the Old Kingdom. Over generations, the Sphinx continuously got buried under sand and unburied. The Egyptian government had engineers try to repair the Sphinx in 1931, with more renovations added in the 1980s and the 1990s.