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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3349449, member: 91461"]Just to clarify, the sphinx and pyramids are contemporary:</p><p>Great pyramid- "Archaeologists believe Egypt's large pyramids are the work of the Old Kingdom society that rose to prominence in the Nile Valley after 3000 B.C. Historical analysis tells us that the Egyptians built the Giza Pyramids in a span of <b>85 years</b> between 2589 and 2504 BC."</p><p>Sphinx-"It is the oldest known <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_sculpture" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_sculpture" rel="nofollow">monumental sculpture</a> in Egypt and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kingdom" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">Old Kingdom</a>during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafre (c. 2558–2532 BC).<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>"</p><p>Both borrowed from wiki. What did I ever do without her?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3349449, member: 91461"]Just to clarify, the sphinx and pyramids are contemporary: Great pyramid- "Archaeologists believe Egypt's large pyramids are the work of the Old Kingdom society that rose to prominence in the Nile Valley after 3000 B.C. Historical analysis tells us that the Egyptians built the Giza Pyramids in a span of [B]85 years[/B] between 2589 and 2504 BC." Sphinx-"It is the oldest known [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_sculpture']monumental sculpture[/URL] in Egypt and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kingdom']Old Kingdom[/URL]during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafre (c. 2558–2532 BC).[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza#cite_note-4'][4][/URL]" Both borrowed from wiki. What did I ever do without her?[/QUOTE]
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