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lion, one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae
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the Great Sphinx of Giza (a statue of a reclining sphinx that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile)
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Was the Great Sphinx of Giza (a statue of a reclining sphinx that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile) an instance of lion (the wild cat panthera leo)?
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Sphinx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A sphinx (Greek: Σφίγξ /sphinx, Bœotian: Φίξ /Phix) is a mythical creature with, as a minimum, the body of a lion and the head of a human or a cat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criosphinx
The Great Sphinx of Giza reborn as a lion in the desert
The Sphinx in Egypt might have originally had the face of a lion, it is claimed. And it could be much older than previously thought, investigations led by a British geologist ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1092827/The-Great-Sphinx-...
Great Sphinx of Giza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Sphinx of Giza, commonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx (a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza
Riddles Of The Sphinx
(Top) The sphinx today. (Bottom) Was the original Sphinx really a lion?
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf109/sf109p12.htm
SPHINX : Woman-headed lion, labor Oedipus ; Greek mythology ...
The Sphinx, Athenian red figure amphora C5th B.C., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Sphinx.html

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