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A theory suggesting the Great Sphinx of Giza was originally sculpted as a giant jackal representing the god Anubis, rather than featuring a human head...
This theory proposed by Robert Temple, the theory posits that the disproportionately small human head was re-carved from a much larger jackal head during a later dynasty. Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god associated with mummification and the afterlife, often depicted as a jackal.
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