{"id":135317,"date":"2017-11-08T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135317"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:49:42","slug":"the-sphinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/the-sphinx.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sphinx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sphinx, and the other sites in Giza, are definitely on my bucket list.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a current survey of what we know about how this remarkable sculpture came to be.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/uncovering-secrets-of-the-sphinx-5053442\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/lfDnvGcv4p-hVjrFXNARgeuqjYDvoYkoF5WW4qGgUFTrBO0n5aM76LRPSe0BtASwdiUZxqWQud8smNF3zQplBzClJi504L3k3_Gy2llKnPgEWCp2VCXvzRMmTvbY8sEpjIPi0Ey2KZDxp0zo-okhF817WNUjTQgBiHgP-iP62iUH_ucMLCtT_TLe7Z-VKvjbPoe0aLfZjEDN9z3vwvhI7BB3gjb40mkbWNjtcOHg=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/uncovering-secrets-of-the-sphinx-5053442\/\">Uncovering Secrets of the Sphinx<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAfter decades of research, American archaeologist Mark Lehner has some answers about the mysteries of the Egyptian colossus<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/KAMy2fU9tnX\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sphinx, and the other sites in Giza, are definitely on my bucket list. Here&#8217;s a current survey of what we know about how this remarkable sculpture came to be. Uncovering Secrets of the Sphinx After decades of research, American archaeologist Mark Lehner has some answers about the mysteries of the Egyptian colossus View on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/the-sphinx.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sphinx&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,721,6],"tags":[1315],"class_list":["post-135317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-interesting-places","category-science","tag-archaeology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sphinx.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4807,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/31\/passages_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":135317,"position":0},"title":"Passages","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 31-Dec-03 12:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Amidst all the \"stars who died this year\" recaps, may I commend to you one Wah Ming Chang, who died 22 December. 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