Sphinx to be repaired regularly, as it negatively affects the polluted air and groundwater. In the current work on the statue repaired cracks, updated coverage of the monument.
Also, tourists can visit a small temple which built next to the Sphinx Pharaoh Amenhotep II.
The exact date of the opening of the area around the Sphinx is not yet determined.
In addition, the completed restoration work on the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the Pyramids of Giza, it will open to visitors on Monday.
Heffron ordered the creation of the Sphinx of Giza - fourth pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom (about 2500 BC).
Carved statue of a lion with a human face is still the largest in the world.
It is believed that Heffron ordered to give their own individual traits of monsters (Sphinx in Arabic means "Father of Terror").
According to historians, all subsequent pharaohs was their duty to "update" the head of the Sphinx, striving to achieve maximal similarity with them.
