RESTORATION OF SPHINX BEING DONE ANCIENT WAY.(Getaways)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: April 17, 1997 | Copyright information

The Egyptian workmen let out a groan as they hoist a limestone block, suspended by rope from a pole across their shoulders, and start shuffling up a wooden ramp beside the Sphinx.

Slowly, carefully, the eight robed workers haul the 440-pound stone to the Sphinx's left flank and ease it into place, mimicking the technique of the beast's builders 4,500 years ago - to the delight of tourists looking on.

Last week, the workers began the final phase of a 10-year restoration project on the Sphinx, the huge stone lion with a pharaoh's face that guards the Great Pyramids.

It ...

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