The Sphinx was in fact buried in sand as many as its shoulders right until the early 1800s, any time a Genoese adventurer named Capt. Giovanni Battista Caviglia tried (and in the end unsuccessful) to dig out the statue that has a staff of a hundred and sixty Males. [40] https://emilianotvwos.wiki-cms.com/7546580/not_known_details_about_the_sphinx