“The archaeological proof means that the Nice Sphinx was created round 2500 BC for the pharaoh Khafre, the builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza. The stones lower from across the Sphinx’ physique have been used to assemble a temple in entrance of it, nevertheless neither the enclosure nor the temple have been ever accomplished, and the relative shortage of Outdated Kingdom cultural materials suggests {that a} Sphinx cult was not established on the time.

With a view to assemble the temple, the northern perimeter-wall of the Khafre Valley Temple needed to be deconstructed, therefore it follows that the Khafre funerary complicated preceded the creation of the Sphinx and its temple. Moreover, the angle and placement of the south wall of the enclosure suggests the causeway connecting Khafre’s Pyramid and Valley Temple already existed earlier than the Sphinx was deliberate. The decrease base stage of the Sphinx temple additionally signifies that it doesn’t pre-date the Valley Temple.” [X]

Misplaced Treasures of Egypt: Mysteries of the Sphinx (S2E02) (2020)