“How the Great Sphinx of Giza may have started out with the face of a lion”
The Sphinx was a lion. The head was much later replaced with a pharaoh’s head. The beard of the Sphinx is in the British Museum on London. Only statues of dead pharaohs had beards, btw.
Actually the Great Sphinx of Giza started as Anubis in the form of a jackel. See: “The Great Sphinx Mystery” by Robert Temple.