YMMV / The Sphinx

• Fridge Logic: Why are there no records of the building of such a monument, not even engravings on its sides? Were they erased by someone?
  • It's likely that there were records, but they simply haven't survived the ravages of time, or simply haven't been found yet.
  • It is still possible though that the records were deliberately destroyed, as was common to the Ancient Egyptians as a way to punish a dead person by making them an Unperson, which was believed to cause Cessation of Existence for the punished party since there was no longer any remnant of them on Earth. Though why someone would go through the trouble of destroying all the records but not the frikkin' statue itself is a mystery.
• I Am Not Shazam: It's not really a sphinx, but rather an homage to some important ancient Egyptian figure (there are similar statues in Egypt, just not so big). What the statue was originally called (or who is it based on) is a mystery.
  • A popular theory says it is Pharaoh Khafre, whose pyramid stands behind The Sphinx.
  • Another theory says it was originally a full lion (compare the head to the body - it's really tiny) later remade into a human head. The theory says it also originally looked into the star sign "Lion" - 8000 YEARS AGO.
  • Its name in Arabic means "The Terrifying One".
  • Ironically, The Wizard Shazam! did live in Ancient Egypt, maybe he knows the answers!

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