The great sphinx is thousands of years old.

巨型狮身面像已经有千年的历史了。

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a sphinx-like statue with a smiling face and two dimples.

埃及考古家出土了一尊像狮身面像的雕像，上面有一张笑脸和两个酒窝。

It has trolls, runaway brides, the sphinx and a fearsome monster called the boy.

面有巨怪、逃跑的新娘、狮身面像和一个叫“男孩”的可怕怪物。

More of Moreau's interest in mythology is visible in paintings like Oedipus and Sphinx, Galatea, and Salome Dancing before Herod, who was frequently depicted by symbolists trying to represent the idea of a femme fatale.

莫罗对神话的更多兴趣可见于俄狄浦斯和狮身面像、加拉忒亚和希律之前的莎乐美之舞等画作，这些画作经常被象征主义者描绘 ，试图代表蛇蝎美的想法。

Asked about the return of the sphinx of Hattusa, which he personally oversaw, Mr Gunay explained that it went to a museum in Corum, “the very homeland of the sphinx”.

被问到他亲自监督的哈图沙狮身面像的还时，居纳伊解释说，它去了乔鲁姆的一家博物，才是它真正的家。

Khafre's pyramid complex includes a unique feature: the Great Sphinx, a huge guardian statue with the head of a man and the body of a lion.

狮身面像、一个巨型守护者的雕像，他有一个的头和一个狮子的身体。

The most common iconography on ivory plaques are lions, sphinxes and winged goddesses which shows the Egyptian and Assyrian influences.

象牙牌匾上最常见的肖像是狮子、狮身面像和有翼女神，显示了埃及和亚述的影响。

He has done a lot of work at Kawa, north of Khartoum, where this sphinx came from.

曾在尼罗河岸工作多年，也在本节中狮身面像的发现地，即喀土穆北部的卡瓦进行过大量考古挖掘。

Due to the grand monuments the dynasty raised, Egypt announced its grandeur to the world through monumental building projects, exemplified in the works of the Kings of the 4th Dynasty, the Pyramids of Giza, and the Sphinx.

由于这个王朝建立了宏伟的纪念碑，埃及通过不朽的建筑工程向世界宣告了它的伟大，例如第四王朝的国王们的作品，吉萨金字塔和狮身面像。

Germany maintained it had obtained the sphinx legally, whereas Turkish authorities argued that it had merely been sent to Germany for repair.

德国坚持说这个狮身面像是他们合法获取的，然而土耳其当局辩称当时把这尊物运到德国只是做修复。

If you think sphinx, you think correctly, the sphinx is an important figure in Egyptian and Greek art.

如果你回答斯芬克斯，就对了，斯芬克斯狮身面像是埃及和希腊艺术中的重要形象。

Here it is now and, compared with the one at Giza, this sphinx is very small.

与吉萨的狮身面像相比，本节提到的这一尊尺寸极小。

In May 2011 German and Turkish culture officials signed an agreement to return the sphinx as part of a wider accord on training curators, exchanging research and enabling loans of Turkish objects.

2011年5月德国和土耳其的化官员签署了还狮身面像的协议，这个协议是长培训计划的延伸，也是考古研究和土耳其出借物的交换条件。

Taharqo's sphinx is a very sophisticated piece of political imagery, for it's not just a mix of north and south, it also combines the present with the long distant past.

除了南北特色的融合之外，塔哈尔卡的狮身面像还有更为复杂的政治含义：它连接了当下与历史。

A giant carving of the mythical creature, the sphinx lies in the sand near Giza famous pyramids in Egypt.

狮身面像是一个巨型神兽雕塑，位于埃及著名的吉萨金字塔附近的沙地上。

Early last year Turkey stepped up the pressure, indicating that it would not renew the licences of the German archaeology institute, the biggest foreign group working in Turkey, unless the sphinx was sent home.

去年年初土耳其增大了压力，明确指出除非还狮身面像，否则就不会更新德国考古研究所（土耳其最大的外国工作团）的执照。

A team of scientists at NYU's applied mathematics lab replicated windy conditions, the Great Sphinx likely faced 4,500 years ago instead of wind, they used a flat stream of water.

纽约大应用数实验室的一个科家小组模拟了4500年前狮身面像可能面临的大风环境，他们用平缓的水流代替了风进行的研究。

He believed that the desert wind, shaped a natural land form to resemble a reclining sphinx.

他认为，沙漠中的风塑造出了一个自然地形，就像一个躺着的狮身面像。

Mr Gunay also forced the German government to return a massive sphinx (pictured) that had been removed in 1917 from Hattusa, the Bronze-Age capital of the Hittite empire.

居纳伊也督促德国政府还1917年他们从青铜时代的赫梯帝国之都哈图沙拿走的一个巨型狮身面像。

Documentation about the sphinxes was destroyed in bombing raids on Berlin in the second world war.

这对狮身面像的件在二战期间毁于袭击柏林的炸弹。