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The Old and New Kingdom Sphinx Temples at Giza:

The Great Sphinx is, like many other monuments in Egypt, a
complex rather than simply a single colossal statue. At the
Sphinx on the Giza Plateau near Cairo, there are actually two
Sphinx temples. One of them, directly in front of the Sphinx,
dates to the time when the Sphinx monument was built, while the
other is of New Kingdom construction.

In the older of the two temples, the core blocks are of the
same generally poorer quality and more easily eroded limestone
as the body of the Sphinx. Thus these temple can be regarded as
contemporary with the carving of the monument. It should also
be noted that the same core blocks also make up Khafre's lower,
or valley temple, and thus place it, the Sphinx and the Sphinx
temple in the same date range.

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