This Hyksos sphinx dates to Egypt's 12th Dynasty (c. 1991-1786 B.C.) and was found in Tanis. The noted French archaeologist Auguste Mariette wrote in 1863 that these black granite sphinxes 'differ from other Egyptian monuments in a very marked way as one sees by comparing them with the Sphinx of Tutmes III and Ramses II. The face is round, the eyes are small, the nose flattened, the cheek bones projecting, the lower lip sliphtly advanced, the ears are those of a bull wehile the mane of a lion encircles the visage.' The Hyksos were a people from the Middle East who took over the eastern Nile delta, ruling Egypt there from c. 1800 to 1550. Tanis is a city in the northeastern Nile Delta.
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This Hyksos sphinx dates to Egypt's 12th Dynasty (c. 1991-1786 B.C.) and was found in Tanis. The noted French archaeologist Auguste Mariette wrote in 1863 that these black granite sphinxes 'differ from other Egyptian monuments in a very marked way as one sees by comparing them with the Sphinx of Tutmes III and Ramses II. The face is round, the eyes are small, the nose flattened, the cheek bones projecting, the lower lip sliphtly advanced, the ears are those of a bull wehile the mane of a lion encircles the visage.' The Hyksos were a people from the Middle East who took over the eastern Nile delta, ruling Egypt there from c. 1800 to 1550. Tanis is a city in the northeastern Nile Delta.

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19th century B C Hyksos sphinx Hyksos Egyptian sphinx Auguste Mariette Mariette Tanis granite sphinx Nile delta Egyptian sculpture Egyptian art 1900s B C 1800s B C 20th century B C 19th century B C

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