Wonderopolis

 

For this period we have been assigned to do a Wonderopolis article of our choice and we have to tell you 5 facts about it. The topic I chose was the sphinx and here are my 5 facts.

Facts

1. This man named Oedipus came to Thebes and he met the sphinx. Then he was given a riddle which was (Man who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult and then uses a walking stick in old age). He answered with the correct answer a human being after defeating a sphinx he has been crowned king. 

2. The sphinx is 66 feet tall and 240 feet long.

3. The sphinx is about 4,000 years old.

4. Experts think thousands of Egyptians worked to carve the Great Sphinx.

5. A sphinx is a creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human. It is a prominent mythological figure in Egyptian, Asian, and Greek mythology.