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Old Kingdom pharaohs ruled Egypt liked gods on earth. Their power and financial resources must have seemed limitless to people who saw the Great Pyramids, colossal statues at Abu Simbel, and the mighty Sphinx of Giza. The Sphinx has the body of a lion and the head of Khafre, the fourth pharaoh of the fourth dynasty. Even after four and a half millennia of dust storms, the majestic 65-foot-high sphinx still stares boldly at the world (though its eyes are eroded).