RICHMOND MUSEUM'S BLOCKBUSTER SHOW UNVEILS EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION.(DAILY BREAK)

From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: June 10, 1999| Author: Annas, Teresa | Copyright information

Byline: TERESA ANNAS, STAFF WRITER

RICHMOND -- The Great Sphinx is supposed to be a mystery, isn't it? Not a real, flesh-and-blood guy.

But there he is - the probable model for the Sphinx, which rises 65 feet from the base of the Giza pyramids.

He is King Khafre, who ruled Egypt about 4,500 years ago. His portrait bust, part of an Egyptian exhibit now in Richmond, has been pieced together from fragments. Like curling orange peels reconfigured into ...

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