Frederik Louis Norden — view of Sphinx and pyramids from Nile c.1737

The head of the Great Sphinx of Giza in the foreground dwarfed by the pyramids of Giza. Illustration from The Antiquities, Natural History, Ruins and other Curiosities of Egypt, Nubia and Thebes (1780) by Frederik Louis Norden.

Source image: New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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