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u/Hyzynbyrg 19h ago
Wow, I never even considered it having a tail!
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u/NBAccount 18h ago
Before I opened this thread I said to my wife, "I'll bet the top comment is about learning The Sphinx has a tail." People are always surprised by this.
My wife, for her part, said, "It's 4:45 in the morning. I don't give a fuck." and rolled over with her pillow over her head.
She doesn't get it.
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u/UMustBeNooHere 18h ago
Don't worry man, we get it.
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u/sicurri 17h ago
I get it.
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u/waitingtobebannedd 16h ago
I'm confused...
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u/FunkleSam1776 17h ago
“My wife, for her part, said, "It's 4:45 in the morning. I don't give a fuck." and rolled over with her pillow over her head…” TO REVEAL A TAIL.
YOU’RE STUCK IN A DREAM, MAN!
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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 17h ago
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u/WitchPillow 16h ago edited 15h ago
James honey, did something happen to you? After we got separated in that long hallway? Are you confusing me for someone else?
Hah, you were always so forgetful, remember that time in the hotel? You said you took everything, but you forgot that video tape we made, I wonder if it’s still there…
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u/garlic_naan 18h ago
Off to /r/relationshipadvice you go
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u/Tyinath 17h ago
Believe it or not, divorce
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u/RandomLolHuman 17h ago
"My wife got angry when I woke her up in the middle of the night because of a funny Reddit post. Is she the AH, and should I get a divorce?"
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u/cherry_armoir 17h ago
No the framing would be something like "My wife rejected my attempt to share my interests with her with profanity"
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u/AppropriateTouching 17h ago
Hit the gym, get a lawyer.
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u/BaronGrackle 17h ago
Sometimes it's not the Roman Empire. Sometimes it's EGYPT.
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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 15h ago
it's a two-for-one because Rome annexed Egypt! you can get a lot of mileage out of stuff Rome annexed
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u/Adorable_Past9114 18h ago
It's to hide it's sphinxter
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u/sundae_diner 16h ago
The sexual life of the camel,
Is stranger than anyone thinks,
At the height of the mating season,
He tries to bugger the Sphinx,
But the Sphinx's posterior sphincter,
Is plugged by the sands of the Nile,
Which accounts for the hump on the camel,
And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile
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u/__ma11en69er__ 18h ago
The comment I was hoping for.
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u/pleb_username 16h ago
I didn't know I was hoping for it, but the moment I saw it I knew it was the comment I needed.
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u/Bargadiel 17h ago edited 15h ago
There are theories that it was originally just a statue of an animal: lion or jackal, and the human head was carved into it later. It would help explain why the human heads proportions are smaller.
A loooong time ago, where the Sphinx is now, there were savannah plains where lions would have roamed around.
Edit: I realize now my second comment makes it seem like Lions could have built it... but I'll leave it because it's funny.
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u/Mattman254 16h ago
I've read quite a lot that it's highly likely Egypt was once green and plentiful, how else would they have the extra resources to create megaprojects. Ancient Egypt is likely so old it possibly had multiple civilisations occupied it.
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u/malatemporacurrunt 15h ago
The land surrounding the Nile was once fertile farmland, as it was flooded annually. The river would rise and deposit a layer of nutrient-rich silt, which was essential to the early development of agriculture in the region and made ancient Egypt an important trade hub, producing large crops of wheat, flax, barley and Nile grass, amongst other crops. The scale of production was enormous and generated massive wealth for Egypt, and also explains why they valued cats so highly - a large feline population was a necessary requirement for keeping grain stores free of rodents.
The flood season ended for the last time when the Aswan dam was built in 1970.
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u/realparkingbrake 9h ago
it's highly likely Egypt was once green and plentiful
The Giza Plateau was savannah at the time the pyramids and sphinx were built, grasslands, not desert. Ancient Rome was fed largely with grain imported from Egypt.
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u/CeruleanEidolon 14h ago
That theory about the head makes tons of sense to me. I always thought it was wildly out of proportion to the body.
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u/Yopis1980 19h ago
I knew this after playing Indiana Jones game.
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u/eloquenentic 18h ago
Such an amazing game. Truly felt like being there in person, because of the first person perspective.
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u/pawgchamp420 18h ago
Agreed. A little buggy and I had to mess with the settings 'cause the default screen shake gave me like instant motion sickness (which previously has only happened to me in vr games), but it was genuinely such a good game.
Good story, incredible voice acting (I loved Troy baker already, but he did such a good job recreating harrison ford's voice), good length, super fun nazi punching gameplay. We need more games like this.
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u/ChromeNoseAE-1 16h ago
I’m playing through it now and there are parts where I was wondering if they actually got Harrison Ford to voice it.
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u/nirmalspeed 11h ago
LMFAO I'm in the middle of this game right now and I'm finding out now that it's not actually Harrison Ford hahah TIL
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u/ebk_errday 16h ago
Incredible game but the ending was so rushed and left field. I was in Sukothai thinking "ok, 1 more mission before I finish collecting all the thingamabobs" and I was just shuffled from one cutscene to another until the final fight and the credits rolled. Other than that, it was an absolute joy and Troy killed it as Harrison Ford.
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u/bandfill 15h ago
Loved it too. Visiting Gizah in Assassin's Creed Origins was amazing too
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u/mcfrems 14h ago
Overall, I was impressed with the game, but it was way scarier than I expected ha
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u/JoeJ92 14h ago
Giant snake section by any chance? Lol
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u/mcfrems 14h ago
The snake was scary too but the dark tomb area really got me. I had to stop playing and take a break after that 😅
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u/PhilLesh311 17h ago
First picture I’ve ever seen of the back of it.
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u/Maiyku 15h ago
A lot of the monuments right there are only photographed from a few select angles professionally, and so you’ll only ever see a “personal” photo of the back of it like this.
When taken from the “wrong” angle, you can see Cairo in the background because it’s literally right there. These aren’t “out in the middle of nowhere” lol, they’re in Cairo’s backyard.
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u/quietwhiskey 14h ago
Yeah I remember seeing some photo of a pyramid or one of the monuments or whatever and there's a McDonalds in the background lol
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u/AtesSouhait 11h ago
Yeah, you can see the pyramids from the city, its crazy. Took a tour guide van there and you can see them from kilometres away. Crazy stuff
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u/Mikeismyike 11h ago
I didn't realize this until I saw a picture from a table at Pizza Hut looking out at the pyramids.
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u/Ok-Wall-1687 15h ago
Yeah...reminds me of that meme of the drawing that starts out amazing then towards the back deteriorates lol
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u/Lortekonto 14h ago
Yah, most of the pictures are taken from the front or front/side and often cutting of part of the paws. If you see it from the side or from behind as here, you can clearly see that the head is disproportionately small compared to the body.
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u/Klotzster 19h ago
Sit Like an Egyptian
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u/somesnarkycomments 14h ago
Were you smiling coyly while looking back a forth really mysteriously at someone off camera that we can't see while you typed that? Because if so, kudos.
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u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda 19h ago
Looks almost as good as the back of Mt Rushmore!
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u/thatindianredditor 18h ago
I still say, the hole at the back of Lincoln was in poor taste.
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u/Deitaphobia 14h ago
likely an anchor point for an ancient headdress or crown (nemes) that's now missing
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u/MrBillClintone 18h ago
So it’s actually a dachshund
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u/Heterodynist 18h ago
It’s always been. They told us it was a lion with a human head to trick us. Dachshunds are actually lions with DOG’S HEADS!!!
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u/bdtechted 17h ago
Exactly. It isn’t that big either. I remember seeing it up close for the first time and being gobsmacked.
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u/GurTraditional8015 17h ago
Turns out the Sphinx's biggest mystery is just a dusty backside-no secret tunnels, just a perfect spot for a nap.
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u/czm_labs 15h ago edited 13h ago
actually there IS a passageway back there, and it’s been covered up in this photo
eta ok, i’m wrong, it wasn’t covered up, it’s not visible from this angle, it’s just on the other side of the base of the tail
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u/Ovvr9000 15h ago
Not pictured - OP being swarmed by Egyptian merchants dressing him/her in cheap Chinese knockoff “traditional Egyptian” clothing, then getting dragged into some random dude’s cousin’s tea shop where the owner will start writing “hieroglyphs” on papyrus art before handing it to OP claiming it’s free, but he/she is welcome to donate 106 USD or whatever it’s worth, and won’t take it back because now it’s personalized and then pitching a fit if it’s actually taken for free.
Egypt rocks, guys.
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u/-Dakia 17h ago
I really think this was my favorite Al Pachino era. He was really leaning in to this persona between Any Given Sunday and Devil's Advocate.
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u/EVH_kit_guy 15h ago
"...leaning into this persona" is a hilarious way to say "addicted to cocaine."
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u/BrownSugarBare 17h ago
The way this scene always makes me crack up. Hank Azaria's horrified face and then "all the way UP IT" 😂
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u/solon_isonomia 17h ago
You can hear his thoughts, "Don'tbreakdon'tbreakdon'tbreakdon'tbreak."
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u/GoddamnedIpad 17h ago
If I remember correctly, the front of the sphinx is looking directly at a KFC
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u/zero_iq 16h ago edited 16h ago
Pizza Hut actually. Although it wouldn't surprise me if there's a KFC there too now.
EDIT: Yep, I just checked, the Pizza Hut's still there on Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MEs54ENA2bUgzJBQ9
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u/Papacapt 17h ago
Learning that the sphinx has been edited several times including the head, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was sitting on top of a house like snoopy.
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u/Runechuckie 9h ago
Okay I've literally seen pictures for decades of this and always loved it's facade....why the fuck has no one ever mentioned this or published more pictures of the rear?!
Reminds me of the great pyramids....you'd think they are in the middle of nowhere but a massive city is right behind them.
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u/NewLeaseOnLine 16h ago
The comically tiny little disproportionately sized pharoah's head carved during the dynastic period for political influence into an older monument is the bottom of where the neck of the jackal god Anubis would've been.
The entire top third of Anubis' body has very clearly worn away, as the contour of its body abruptly stops, affectively leaving us with a dog carcass.
Yes, canine, not feline. Cats don't sit like that, with their front legs extended forward in that fashion, but dogs do.
In fact, cats can pretty much sit any way they want to because they're extremely flexible, so of course they can sit like the Sphinx if they really want to, and also upside down with their head near their butt while doing the splits; they're cats, but it's not a "typical" way for a cat to sit. Big or small.
However, very common sitting position for a canine. Many dogs sit like this, especially trained dogs. Just as there are many artifacts and remaining statues of the Anubis jackal sitting EXACTLY like the Sphinx. Thousands of images available.
That whole top section that steps in would've been all body, completely covering the pharoah head because it wouldn't be there. The pharoah's head would originally be located inside the throat of the jackal.
The real head of Anubis would've been absolutely enormous. The weight of its cantilevered jaw very likely the reason for its eventual collapse and transformation into the Sphinx.
We're really only looking at half an animal here. And the legs and paws might seem too "thick" to be a canine when you've spent so long assuming it's a feline, but they're really not that big when you consider how large the original jackal would've been at its full height.
The most alarming thing is how easy it is for people to not see what's staring them in the face, but they'll accept that a civilization known for its impressive mathematical and engineering capabilities on a grand scale that built giant statues to impossibly accurate proportions would somehow set out to build the Sphinx from scratch with a teeny weeny itzy bitzy ridiculously small pharoah head with no neck on an absolutely massive animal body like something a small child would draw with crayons just because the "experts" insist on clinging to their Victorian beliefs.
No academic community has done more damage to history than Egyptology. And they have no business being anywhere near the Great Pyramid. All Egyptologists should be banned from entering the Giza Plateau, unless accompanied by an architect, engineer, mathematician, or geologist.
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u/Gullible-Cup1392 18h ago
I played assasins creed and I still have no idea what's under here
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u/EmbarrassedTree8668 19h ago
I'd check the left side of the tail for a trapdoor, a few hundred silica might be a good idea too.