The Sphinx was truly buried in sand up to its shoulders right until the early 1800s, every time a Genoese adventurer named Capt. Giovanni Battista Caviglia attempted (and in the long run failed) to dig out the statue which has a staff of one hundred sixty Gentlemen. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors https://magawish-hurghada82468.wikiconverse.com/5537434/not_known_details_about_the_sphinx