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Fragment of Ancient Egyptian Sphinx Discovered in Northern Israel
(Ha'aretz) Eli Ashkenazi - Hebrew University researchers announced Tuesday the discovery of a fragment of a sphinx at Tel Hazor in northern Israel with an inscription mentioning the Egyptian King Mycerinus, who ruled Egypt about 3,400 years ago and was one of the builders of the Giza Pyramids. According to Dr. Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian culture at the Israel Museum, "Nowhere else in the Levant has a royal, monumental Egyptian statue of this size been found. It is also the only surviving sphinx of King Mycerinus - none have been found even in Egypt." The fragment of the front feet of the sphinx, made of granite, is 30 to 40 cm. high, and weighs about 40 kg.