The great sphinx is thousands of years old.

狮身人面已经有千年的历史了。

Because this man is unquestionably a black African, and this sphinx is the image of a black pharaoh.

这座狮身人面刻画的是一位黑人法老。

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

与吉萨的狮身人面相比，本节提到的这一尊尺寸极小。

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

里面有怪、逃跑的新娘、狮身人面一个叫“男孩”的可怕怪物。

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

埃考古学家出土了一尊狮身人面的雕，上面有一张笑脸两个酒窝。

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

狮身人面是一个神兽雕塑，位于埃著名的吉萨金字塔附近的沙地上。

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，也在本节中狮身人面的发现地，即喀土穆北部的卡瓦进行过大量考古挖掘。

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，那就对了，斯芬克斯狮身人面是埃腊艺术中的重要形象。

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，就一个躺着的狮身人面。

The sphinx is one of a pair, the first was sent back to Turkey in 1924.

狮身人面原来是一对，第一个已经在1924年还给土耳其。

We are talking about the Great Sphinx of Giza.

我们正在谈论吉萨大狮身人面。

So might some Egyptian sphinx have smiled.

一些埃狮身人面可能也会微笑。

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是狮子、狮身人面有翼女神，显示了埃亚述的影响。

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

这对狮身人面的文件在二战期间毁于袭击柏林的炸弹。

The iconic row of sphinx-like lions still heralds the importance of the place.

标志性的一排狮身人面狮子仍然预示着这个地方的重要性。

But tourists visited the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx.

但是游客参观了大金字塔狮身人面。

The huge statue of the Sphinx is there, too, watching over the pyramids.

大的狮身人面也在那里， 守护着金字塔。

When she chose, however, her face could be sphinx-like in its inscrutability.

然而，当她选择时， 她的脸可能会狮身人面一样难以捉摸。

Next, he had an interest in the sphinx though it was only a specimen.

接下来，他对古埃的狮身人面很感兴趣虽然它只是个样本。

An avenue of battered sphinxes leads to the awe-inspiring main entrance heralding the Temples of Karnak.

一条破旧的狮身人面大道通向令人惊叹的正门，预示着卡纳克神庙。