INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A life-size replica of the Great Sphinx of
Giza has reappeared in China - two years after it was torn down at the request of Egypt
The resurrection of the Sphinx at a theme park in North China's Hebei province has prompted a "furious" Egypt to file yet another complaint
with UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural arm
Egypt had claimed, when it first protested the knockoff statue in 2014, that it could end up hurting the country's tourism industry,
demanding it be taken down immediately
It took two years for China to finally tear down the statue - but pictures of the replica popped up again on social media last week.Egypt's
France's Louvre glass pyramid, had claimed the reproductions were built as part of a film set and would be demolished once filming had
Times, quoting Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly, reports the country's Ministry of State of Antiquities first filed a complaint with
called the statue "a bad imitation that disfigures the original.It took two years for China to act on Egypt's complaint
Even then, workers only separated the creature's head from its body, reports South China Morning Post.Chinese news website guancha.com
reports the head was recently seen being re-attached to the Sphinx's body
statue was insulting to the Egypt's cultural heritage."It is a violation of Egypt's intellectual property and eventually China will remove
the fake Sphinx," Ashraf Mohi Al-Din, General Manager of Giza Pyramid Plateau, told The Daily Telegraph.Click for more trending news
