China decides to demolish the fake `Sphinx` statue

ArabiaWeather.com- The Chinese authorities decided to demolish a replica of the Great Sphinx in China after Cairo submitted a complaint to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) about this model.

The model, identical to the famous Sphinx, appeared in a Chinese village in Hebei Province, with the same real dimensions as the original statue that sits on the sands of the Giza region near the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

The designers of the Chinese statue completely imitated the "original" Sphinx, in the accuracy of designing the details of the head, which is a human head, as well as the body that takes the form of a lion, in addition to "copying" the broken nose of the Sphinx, which was damaged in mysterious circumstances hundreds of years ago.

A Chinese official told the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, that the statue was built only for cinematographic purposes, and that it would be demolished immediately afterwards (Sky News Arabia).