This is the mighty Sphinx, seen from the road coming down from the plateau proper.

You'll note the nose is missing. It's been gone for a long time, now. One story has it that when Napoleon treked through, his soldiers shot its nose off while using the head for target practice, back when the head was all that was sticking out of the sands.

In truth, it was broken off by a religious fellow who decried the thing as a heathen idol. Considering what just happened in Afghanistan, I suppose we should be grateful that said fellow didn't have access to dynamite. It also had a false beard at one time, courtesy of Thutmosis IV, but it broke off at some point. Its fragments -- or plaster casts of those fragments, I forget which -- can be found in the Cairo Museum