Which Pharaoh built a temple to the north east of the Sphinx 1000 years after it was built ?
Selim Hassan , writing in 1949 on recent excavations of the Sphinx enclosure , summed up the problem: " Taking all things into consideration , it seems that we must give the credit of erecting this , the world 's most wonderful statue , to Khafre , but always with this reservation : that there is not one single contemporary inscription which connects the Sphinx with Khafre ; so , sound as it may appear , we must treat the evidence as circumstantial , until such time as a lucky turn of the spade of the excavator will reveal to the world a definite reference to the erection of the Sphinx .