The Secrets of the Sphinx: Restoration Past and Present

This lavishly illustrated, bilingual English and Arabic volume tells the story of the Sphinx from ancient times to the present, focusing particularly on the task - first addressed in the second millenium BC - of preserving it. Published to mark the completion of a major modern restoration project, the book is an invaluable and fascinating document, a testimony not only to the skills of the people who built the Sphinx, but to those who have maintained and renewed it down the ages.

Zahi Hawass is Director General of the Giza Pyramids. H.E. Farouk Hosni is Egypt's Minister of Culture. Gaballa Ali Gaballa is General Secretary of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities.

ISBN: 9789774244926
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: September 15, 1998