The Great Sphinx is a huge statue in Egypt that has a lion' s body with a man' s head  The face of the Sphinx has long been claimed to be that of pharaoh Khafre, who lived around 2600 B  C
, but it cannot be: erosion patterns recently discovered on the lion' s legs can only have been caused by heavy rains, and the Sahara has not had heavy rains in over 10, 000 years
The face of the Sphinx is small relative to the rest of the head, indicating that the face may have been recarved long after the Sphinx was built.