The Mysterious Sphinx

You know, you never see pictures of the Sphinx's butt. I have one, but this picture seemed more interesting to post.

I seem to recall some Discovery Channel TV show or something that suggested the Sphinx is actually much older -- perhaps thousands of years older -- than the Pyramids. The story said that ancient people carved an image of a lion into the stone, and a pharaoh much later did some remodeling on the lion's face.

From this angle, one can kind of see that the head of the Sphinx is disproportionately smaller than the rest of the body. Whether there is anything to this story or not, my impression was that the Sphinx was simply smaller than I expected from all the times I've seen it on TV and in movies.