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English edition
Sep
1998
64 pp.
Paperback
15.5X23 cm
$15.95
LE 55.00
ISBN
978 977 424 492 6
For sale worldwide
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The Secrets of the Sphinx
Restoration Past and Present
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Zahi Hawass
Foreword by
H.E. Farouk Hosni
Introduction by
Gaballa Ali Gaballa
A concise account, in English and Arabic, of the history of the building and restoration of the Sphinx by the man currently responsible for the Giza monuments.
This lavishly illustrated, bilingual English and Arabic volume tells the story of the Sphinx from ancient times to the present, focusing particularly on the task—first addressed in the second millenium BC—of preserving it. Published to mark the completion of a major modern restoration project, the book is an invaluable and fascinating document, a testimony not only to the skills of the people who built the Sphinx, but to those who have maintained and renewed it down the ages.
Zahi Hawass is director general of the Giza Pyramids.
H.E. Farouk Hosni is Egypt’s minister of culture.
Gaballa Ali Gaballa is general secretary of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities.
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