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Hence, it was probably built by the same men who
constructed the Pyramid temples of Khafre and is in fact almost
an exact copy of the court of Khafre's mortuary temple. In fact,
Khafre's lower temple was at one time thought to be the Sphinx
Temple. The two temples are similar in size and both face east in
a north-south alignment. Each has a pair of north and south
entrances in their eastern facades. Both temples were faced,
inside and out, with finely dressed pink granite form Aswan in
the far south of Egypt, and paved with alabaster.

Specifically, the old Sphinx temple was built of local
limestone, and cased on the inside with fine Tura limestone,

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