Is it true that the statue of the Egyptian Sphinx closed her eyes?

On the Web, photos of the statue of the Big Sphinx in Giza, where his eyes were supposedly closed. We decided to check whether it was true to some changes with the legendary statue.

Photos of the Sphinx with closed eyes appeared on the network in May of this year and widely dispersed along Media, portals For travelers, social networks. There are such posts on "Picabu". Video dedicated to this can be found on YouTube, mainly on channelsdedicated to mysticism. Users ask about it on Portals questions and answers. Some writeWhat is connected with this ancient prophecy about the end of the world.

Since the photograph was widely dispersed not only in the Russian segment of the Internet, but also in the English and Arabic, Egyptian authorities could not help but respond to the news about the eyes of the sphinx. Source in the Ministry of Antiquities of Egypt declared The Arab edition of EREM that the photographs were foisted up to attract attention. 

The Egyptian Tourism Information Center on its Facebook page also denied the fact that the Sphinx closed his eyes, Having laid out Fresh photos where the eyes of the statues are open. The frame also visible a ticket with a very fresh date. Also in the center They saidthat the eyes of the statue look like this, because the photo was taken by a camera with a poor resolution against the sun, from such an angle that the image was distorted.

By searching for the Getty Images portal, where hundreds of thousands of photographs are collected, you can find Photos of the statue for different years, on some of which at a certain angle, the Sphinx looks as if his eyes were closed. So this can hardly be considered a harbinger of the end of the world. One of the Egyptian guides also decided To debunk the emerging myth, went to the statue and shot a video that shows that the Sphinx did not close his eyes. 

Thus, despite the photos that walk on the Internet, the eyes of the Big Sphinx are still widely open, like the last 4500 years. So, you can not be afraid of the coming end of the world, which allegedly portends the fallen Sphinx.

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