How the Sphinx got to the Museum

by Jessie Hartland

I didn't know that one of the Pharaohs (leaders) of Egypt was a woman! This is the story of how one of the Sphinx statues (a lion body with a human head said to be a guard for her temple) for the woman pharaoh was found and brought to a famous museum in New York. The pictures explain a lot of the vocabulary words that go with the jobs within the fields of history, art, archeology, and museums. I am excited to share this book with the students at my school. Maybe it will inspire someone to be an archeologist!

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