Enigmatic Encounter: The Mystery of the 4,000-Year-Old Sphinx in Tel Hazor #facts #Mystery #Sphinx

Archaeologists in Tel Hazor, Israel, discovered something they never anticipated to find so far away from Egypt in 2013: a 4,000-year-old Egyptian sphinx.
They discovered the statue's paws, which were lying on a base.
The rest, it is thought, was purposefully destroyed thousands of years ago.
It would have stood 1 meter (3.3 ft) tall and weighted half a ton before being knocked over.
Nobody knows what happened to an Egyptian monument in Israel.
The lone indication is an inscription on the base that reads "King Mycerinus," the name of an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled circa 2500 BC.
It is exceedingly doubtful that the Egyptians conquered Tel Hazor.
Tel Hazor was a commerce station in Canaan under the reign of Mycerinus , directly connecting Egypt and Babylon.
If it was a gift, it's unclear why King Mycerinus sent it—or why anyone became angry enough to destroy it.
All we know for certain is that someone built a sphinx 1,000 kilometers away from the Great Sphinx of Giza for some purpose.