THE SPHINX, EGYPT
EGYPT, THE LAND OF MYSTERY
The Sphinx
THREE
Battered and broken by the attacks of time and man, buffeted by the desert winds, flat faced, and almost featureless, the Sphinx is still the possessor of its mighty secret—the mystery of the ages. "It is still able to express by the smile of those closed lips the inanity of our most profound human conjectures."