Egypt's Great Pyramid and Sphinx exposed in ‘previously unpublished’ papers of ‘first dig'

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EGYPT's Great Pyramid and Sphinx were excavated by a British explorer more than 200 years ago, but his account would go unpublished until they were unearthed in the British Museum.

, a limestone statue of a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human, said to have been built to protect Pharaoh Khafre, whose pyramid lurks in the backdrop. In the early 19th century, English traveller Henry Salt arrived in Alexandria and travelled to Cairo where he would be stationed as consul for the Government. Once set up in Cairo, he began to work on his mission of securing antiquities and artefacts, relaying back his findings along the way to London.

 

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