Total length73.5 m
153Office chair heights
1.5 thousandthsBahrain lengths
Nose to tail
Photo from Wikimedia Commons
Great Sphinx of Giza
The enigmatic limestone guardian of the Egyptian pyramids/Statues & Monuments
The Great Sphinx of Giza is the largest monolith statue in the world, carved from a single ridge of natural limestone around 2500 BCE. With the body of a lion and a human head, it has been staring inscrutably across the desert for over 4,500 years. Its nose went missing at some point in history, and despite popular myth, Napoleon's troops were almost certainly not responsible.
Measurements
Height20.2 m
235Credit card lengths
301Tennis ball diameters
Base to top of head
Width (shoulders)19.3 m
2.4 tenthsCity blocks
77.2Tambourine diameters
Estimated mass20 million kg
3.7 millionUnabridged dictionaries
667Loaded cement mixers
Roughly 20,000 tonnes of limestone
Age142 billion s
14.8 millionTitanic sinkings
6.8 billionMammal pees
About 4,500 years
Footprint area1,417 m^2
5.43Tennis court areas
1.6 thousandthsAirport runways
Approximate base area