Egyptian Sphinxes

The Great Sphinx of Giza is the largest and most famous of egyptian sphinxes.
It is based on the west bank of the Nile River, on the Giza Plateau and it faces due east ( 29°58'31 N, 31°08'15 E).
Giza's Great Sphinx's face is believed to be the head of the pharaoh Khafra (also known as Chephren) or that of Khafra's son, the Pharaoh Djedefra, thing that would date the construction from the fourth dynasty (2723 BC–2563 BC).

Other famous Egyptian sphinxes are the one related to the pharaoh Hatshepsut, with her likeness carved in granite, and the ram-headed sphinxes representing the god Amon, in Thebes.
Hatshepsut sphinx is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
As about the Amon's sphinx,its original name is currently unknown.