The Great Sphinx, with its head stabilized by bricks and sandbags to protect against potential artillery or bombing. Photographer, Bob Landry for LIFE Magazine, 1942. [702×900]

Comments

1. timisher

   Ok now I need to know how big the thing is. The pic of Louis Armstrong makes it look tiny while this looks huge

2. sliderxl

   Crazy to think that something so ancient could be gone in the space of a second, for geopolitical conflicts started hundreds of miles away.