Situated on the Giza plateau with the great pyramids, the Sphinx (أبو الهول), with the head of a man, a body of a lion, is there to protect the pyramids. The Sphinx is now under major restoration after centuries of erosion by sand wind and rain, even Napoleon had his share when his troops used it for target practice during their occupation of Egypt, and hence they blew the nose off. The statue of the great sphinx is said to have the head of the pharaoh Kahfre.
