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
Other than the Sphinx, there are no surviving sculptures that have been claimed to portray the face of Khafre.