The Egyptian archaeologist Selim Hassan finally freed the statue from the sand in the late 1930s. “The Sphinx ... its missing nose from a limestone block, using replicas of ancient tools found ...

And we mustn’t forget the Sphinx! These places have lasted thousands of years, and survived war, theft, and extreme weather. But you don’t have to go to Egypt to find ancient Egyptian artefacts.

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And we mustn’t forget the Sphinx! These places have lasted thousands of years, and survived war, theft, and extreme weather. But you don’t have to go to Egypt to find ancient Egyptian artefacts.