Detail from a plan of the Giza plateau showing the Great Sphinx of Giza c.1798 during Napoleon's Egyptian expedition and prior to excavation. From Volume 5 of the plates of antiquities from Description de l'Égypte (1822).
Detail from a plan of the Giza plateau showing the Great Sphinx of Giza c.1798 during Napoleon's Egyptian expedition and prior to excavation. From Volume 5 of the plates of antiquities from Description de l'Égypte (1822).