Restoring the SPHINX

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Considering how epic it is today, just imagine how epic it must've been back in the day

[@Manly2000Man]

But ofc not as epic as being a bigfoot living in the forest

[@Usernamee619]

Hey bigfoot were did you get internet access

[@astrid3545]

i wish we had cool structures like that today

[@Pulko172]

Man, i see sou everywhere

[@michaelsabeh8339]

h.

[@G8GTJav]

I've been using Photoshop since 4.0. I restore really old photographs. Very time consuming and, often, I have to take artistic liberties bringing back lost detail. So, wow, I can tell you put some time into this one.

[@paulineavomo3124]

His nose was not like white nose. This is a Kamite man with big nose. What are you doing?

[@jamesley3743]

Same here ...we are talking Weeks involved!!

[@shaman9628]

@@paulineavomo3124 Lmao 🤣.......That is not the shape of a blk man's face! Your afrocentric indoctrination has definitely taken hold.

[@shaman9628]

@@jamesley3743 Lmao..... weeks? Oh for fuck sake grow up. It is what it is..... Hawwwwite peeps

[@Julia-gs5pg]

U could do a series out of this to be honest, the results are wondefull! As a sugestion do, u could also repaint them with their original colors apart from reconstructing them, would be soo cool

[@fenicepercaso4204]

Julia me too!

[@am6610]

I am Julia aswell...

[@gabrielalvarado7849]

jelly beans my neighbor's sister's sibling's friend's dog is named Julia too!

[@rossdenman8]

My uncles friends dogs friends owners sisters bosses hairdressers bartenders friends pet frog is named Julia

[@missingsparrow]

@@rossdenman8 My friends dog actually owns a hairdresser whose brothers mothers cousin once married someone who claimed to have known someone named Julia.

[@christopherwhitaker1615]

Nice makeover! After lying around in a desert for 5000 years, I'd need one too!

[@kyudoarekuza38]

Now make the Sphinx perfect and human

[@rikiishitoru8885]

The Sphinx face is a human

[@kyudoarekuza38]

@@rikiishitoru8885 more human, with eyes and skin.

[@barbaracleverly9058]

They just have! Under that ravaged stone was a very handsome man! Hollywood perfection and verging on inter-gender. I was expecting a cross lion. Amazing work!

[@coolnamefgtrfdhbtrhtr]

He protecc He attacc But most importantly, He wants his nose bacc

[@Boden_Worms]

Lol

[@mrs.paulschmetz3912]

Nose what? Pinokio?

[@niks1life]

lol

[@maelsilvatt]

But, is the sphynx PERFECT?

[@maelsilvatt]

@@hannah3970 😂

[@skylovermc2146]

MaeL SiLva yes

[@boomingstarship539]

nO, pLeAsE nO.

[@hawtdawgsausage4897]

OMG!!

[@winterpupi]

Duh

[@ralphyetmore]

Amazing work, as usual. Now you can do a second post, where you add the original paint and pigment. You can see evidence of the original pigment in the original, around the forehead.

[@RazoE]

Evidence suggests the Sphinx was fully painted at one point, but DAMN you did an amazing job. You never cease to amaze 👍🏻

[@RazoE]

@@hannah3970 it was just painted the same as the fashion at the time, with lots of bright pigments and (presumably) gold

[@santicheeks1106]

Wow thats cool

[@LostandWithered]

RazoE yea you can kind still see some pigment from the forehead it looks kind red and gold, it must have been absolutely breathtaking to look at just seeing how beautiful it is all fixed up and even painted

[@jeremiahthornton7938]

Gold, lapis, black, white and burned sienna. These were the most common colors used for Kemitic artwork and statues. Then again, Juju makes a point.

[@Joshua_Knowles_]

Blue and gold stripes on beard and head adornment, red skin , and dark brown eyes

[@tadpolefart7451]

Mahn can we all appreciate the effort he puts to every single video? Hats off

[@goldenspartacus1937]

You can clearly see the Sphinx used to be dyed or colored back then, there is still coloration remaining the the top of the head.

[@imgazerr]

Yes

[@자시엘-l1s]

Just like Greek and Roman sculptures They were colored but got discolored over the years

[@danielawesome36]

@@자시엘-l1s Renaissance Artists: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that."

[@byfieldmichael1992]

Egyptoligist henry salts said it was colored with lots of red also the chin piece touched the ground many depictions of how it looked before stuff was removed, his book "the sphynx revealed" has many photos and drawings never seen before. Very rare book and $400 if you can find one

[@songfantasy670]

And the nose and lips are much fuller than the in this Photoshop representation. Those features were made much more narrow and thin, than they really are.

[@wesamhamdi82]

Greetings from Egypt .. Thanks for your time and effort.. my dream is to restore all broken and damaged monuments in Egypt to show the world how magnificent and glamorous was the Egyptian civilization.. ❤🇪🇬

[@abomoaaz7245]

UNESCO forbids any addition to monuments and rebuilding them. If Egypt did this, it would not be considered an antiquity. The matter is very simple. There are great builders in Egypt to do this. To this day they sculpt these statues from stones of marble, granite, basalt and stone.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

So photoshop is strong enough to reverse the effects of weathering and erosion? That’s overpowered

[@mantasdapolskas8299]

thanos cant beat photoshop

[@VocallyYours3]

Most don’t know why the noses were shot off these pyramids.

[@ethanolcarbonyl4025]

Hii again brooooo

[@yuval920]

heya

[@KurEye2005]

@TheProGh0st he's like Justin Y 2.0

[@therealityartist9057]

Absolutely amazing I am so fascinated by this sphinx as with the rest of the western world have even tried to carve it out of wood and cover it in gold leaf

[@sunnysquid4925]

I've counted and deduced that there is one existing and magical unicorn found alive by scientists for every video that has been less than perfect put out on this channel

[@johnbemery7922]

As I recall, the Sphinx had it's nose shot off when Napoleon used it as cannon target practice.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Lol!

[@zeeshansheikh18]

White conspiracy Egyptians were black people

[@chinchintutsrpw4806]

@@zeeshansheikh18 I think they would look like a mix of asian and african

[@zeeshansheikh18]

@@chinchintutsrpw4806 could be but some statues have asian eyes as well

[@justmyedits6596]

@@chinchintutsrpw4806 Yep, cuz Isreal is literally next to Egypt. There was a time when an Isreali became a someone that works for the Pharoh so a large wave of Isreali migrated to Egypt for a better life. It was how the story of Moses came to be (Correct me if I'm wrong ^^)

[@glamam3914]

ACTUALLY Ancient Egyptians worshipped Voldemort so that’s why he has no nose

[@jesussaves5692]

💀💀💀

[@hyejubes]

Imagine Voldemort wearing Ancient Egyptian clothes.

[@SaraH-pb9fb]

...nope..ur wrong...the nose fell off...I'm Egyptian..

[@SaraH-pb9fb]

...nope..ur wrong...the nose fell off...I'm Egyptian..

[@arani3395]

What are you doing? Why are you taking his name!!!!

[@ЛарисаКопылова-с1х]

Фантастика! Вы потрясающий мастер Фотошопа! Выбранные персонажи очень интересные, один лучше другого! Успехов в дальнейших работах!

[@malfattio2894]

The Sphinx's beard actually still exists in the British museum

[@MylingCyrus]

I didn't know he had a beard until this video!

[@pigslayeggs3930]

@@MylingCyrus same

[@theowlhouseseason3213]

I thought he is she

[@whiskyslinkydoo3462]

Yet another thing in the hands of the brits that doesn’t originally belong there

[@MahesaArdhi]

British stole it

[@prazatkumai1012]

This is one of the best things you can do with Photoshop, love to see more

[@BornAdventures]

This is brilliant. I've never really thought much about what the Sphinx would have looked like when it was first built, but I found this process fascinating. Well done!

[@emptythrone75]

It was colored back in the day, there's still some red color on the forehead

[@m_jr7066]

Looks cool, They should build a statue of this somewhere one day

[@dragonburst3035]

Where would they have room to build it?

[@Teri_Merii_]

@@dragonburst3035 in the desert

[@ra_alf9467]

World is big, man

[@legospaceracer123]

You're so right I hope they build it soon. Would love to see it.

[@boobluvr800]

Is this a joke????????

[@Gangstermafia-d3i]

You made Sphinx look brand new

[@11mory11]

I'm Egyptian and i'm so proud thanks 😂♥♥

[@guuskraus2438]

Great job! 👌But as an amateur-Egyptolgist I would have loved to see the fragments of the original ‘fals beard’ to be put into place. I also would have loved to see some original color restoration based on pigments that were found on the Sphinx😁

[@cilvabakape763]

Afrikan and Egyptology was designed to hijack the Afrikan history of the Nile Valley civilization.

[@rwyayy3664]

More like this! Restoring historical things is always interesting

[@peterlarsen7779]

Thank you for this very interesting and well made clip. I particularly enjoyed and was happy that you didn't take the liberty to add colours to the final result - you stayed true to the Sphinx... Wouldn't it be cool if the Egyptians built a Sphinx in 1/4 or 1/3 scale beside it but as your restoration....

[@majkel6713]

After: My on Friday's night Before: Me Saturday's morning

[@jamiemckittrick7430]

Majkel me after the fight me before the fight

[@NorseGraphic]

After: After coffee Before: Before coffee Caffeine is important.

[@RuinedTemple]

Would LOVE to see you do more vids that give us a glimpse at what all kinds of different things around the world once looked like when they were new/during their prime! I bet you’d never run out of interesting content that many ppl would be interested in seeing 😃

[@Tcamp95818]

This is probably how it looked maybe 4 to 5 thousand years ago

[@crusadercat7158]

That was fun to watch! It was originally colorfully painted when it was depicted as a pharaoh. It would be interesting to see it taken all the way back with its lion head, all proportional.

[@nancyy3433]

I'm from Egypt 😍♥♥

[@dannyboots]

Do you know what the Sphinx is made of? Is it limestone?

[@MoniemJr]

@@dannyboots Partly limestone, yes. Other parts of the body, like the head, are much harder limestone. And the lowest part of the body, including the legs, is solid rock.

[@ByteOrigin]

Me too!

[@swordandwords6020]

Saba L folk. Teleta.

[@ina-wx5rm]

السلام عليكم💜😆

[@TessMArt]

Extraordinary work. Thank you so very much.

[@annacristina8691]

THIS IS PERFECTION Pleeease do a series out of this

[@halg3625]

I love that you're using your skills for the benefit of humanity and not for clout.

[@rootz420]

The original eyes had details in em that he ignored. I really dont like the eyes

[@beautifullove2394]

I agree the eyes, mouth and face shape.

[@beautifullove2394]

Looks like a mix between African and Asian to me.

[@ma3ttia11]

Sphynx was colored and his eyes were detailed with gold which was stolen hundreds of years ago. Btw im Egyptian.

[@annemurphy9339]

@@beautifullove2394 The people who built the Egyptian civilization come originally from the Asian Levant and migrated down into North Africa.

[@beautifullove2394]

@@annemurphy9339 I can believe it. You can see the Asian/African features without the nose in place.

[@Joe13313]

King Tutankhamun and the other Pharaoh's will be very proud of you

[@Llama_Loca]

I thought this was an actual video of architects fixing the sphinx until i saw the channel's name and video started

[@whiskyslinkydoo3462]

Llama Loca same

[@AndreaDoesStuff]

@@whiskyslinkydoo3462 same but without the channel name part

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

It would be sad to try to restore it that way ; the sphinx is important today because its was there for nearly 4500 years. Its fully normal to see some degradation on it by the time passing. On the other hand, the original recovering of the gizeh pyramid ( after 1000 AD ) , the parthenon ( destroyed in 1687 ) the Alexandria lighthouse ( destroyed in 1303 ) are really sad because those building could have been in nearly perfect condition today, but they missed it by a few centuries. Two case i always found absolutely horrible are the mont cassin monastery ( build in 529 destroyed in 1944, there is a video of it ) and the abbey of Cluny ( founded in 909, one of the biggest cathedral "Cluny III" of all the midle- age destroyed after the french revolution ) ...

[@georggross1232]

Just try to figure out that the scaffolds' positions are out of angle.

[@ЕвгенияПрохожева-я4ъ]

Спасибо за труд!Всегда хотела увидеть Сфинкса!Это потрясающе!!

[@punkizm]

Assassin’s Creed Origins, you can see it in perfect condition.

[@MMM-cf4md]

Photoshop Surgeon you got VISION. U did an incredible painstaking restoration a work of art ON art. 👏👏👏

[@aldeveron9498]

Admirable piece of work! Could you do ones for (a) Stonehenge and (b) Corfe Castle?

[@sergiosouzati]

we missed painting and remaking the snake on the head. Show, very good!

[@jyuya6594]

Now make it perfect and make it human, we'll be waiting :D gosh that t would be awesome skndks

[@fob1xxl]

How beautiful and impressive it must have seemed when it was built ! Amazing ! Thanks 👍

[@zsigzsag]

I've always suspected the Sphinx represented a "female" creature or person ect. The features are definitely feminine. This reconstruction makes it even more clear to me anyway. There is no "bonded beard" depicted in statues of Pharaohs (Hapshetsut being the exception). There is also a theory that the original head of the Sphinx was re-carved.

[@berserker3414]

Wasn't the sphinx a mythological creature half lion, half human? I always heard it was half woman. They liked to make riddles to passengers and they guarded stuff.

[@amrabdulrahim7948]

You made Egypt proud of you

[@ajayavsm7476]

"The great sphinx, its smaller than I expected"

[@jotibaagastya3330]

Thank you for restoring vertually , still many of us don't how it looks really , you have done good job , love from India

[@TheMarionick]

Ah, I get it. They made it so that it mummifies itself over time.

[@marleybu7984]

This is beautiful. I'm awestruck to think what it first looked like all painted with the pure white, gold topped pyramids. Must have been mind blowing. Those people were astonishing! Nice work 😁

[@fernandogomez7538]

Thank you for doing and sharing this "restoration". Truly appreciated.

[@ganymede3141]

On the crown, in the middle of the forehead, is supposed to be a cobra symbolizing the kingdom of Lower Egypt. The cobra's head and flared sides had broken off. Should have reconstructed that as well. Also, when it was constructed, the Sphinx was also painted with white, blue, red and other colors. It was not plain sandstone.

[@JacquesMare]

Exactly my thoughts.....

[@blackgreninja1]

THE SPHINX LOOKED BEAUTIFUL BEFORE

[@shirleywilk7254]

Enjoyed seeing this so much! Thank you!

[@RafaelRabinovich]

According to French chroniclers, Napoleon's army saw a Sphinx with a broad, sub-Saharan African nose. A soldier shot a cannon ball on it.

[@starthelotus3453]

As far as we know, this one had its nose chiseled off by vandals in antiquity.

[@puzzledmind5268]

the nose is missig since before the 10th century, a painting show the sphinx in 1757 without his nose, Napoleon is born in 1769. Stop with the fake history.

[@dianagreen5700]

How spectacular it must have been to view this ! Great job!

[@laracroftchannel1994]

Exelente, habrá sido así de hermoso en sus tiempos ese monumento!! 👍💋

[@Krpclicks]

I love Egyptian ...history ...thanx for such a video

[@Retnick]

Make shrek perfect, Or make shrek human

[@EUDESTROYER]

They already did in Shrek 2 xD

[@gianmonahan154]

Also Shrek's already perfect.

[@andrew_.f1]

Legend has it that builderman is still looking for this guy

[@Sharptooth100]

How about, is Sara Bellum perfect? Even humanizing Sara Bellum is a must also. She is from The Powerpuff Girls TV show and movie.

[@arcticfox_3076]

Wow it even has scary MUSIC at the end 😲😱

[@TripGuerrilla]

Fun fact: Napoleon took down the nose and beard with a cannonball when he invaded Cairo.

[@madskillzdc]

That was pretty dope you should do one with how it originally looked colored & all

[@safeersaadiq6385]

Then it took more than a year to build... *But today, a four-minute video can build one on it's own...*

[@lexws]

the magic of pohotoshop

[@aibpresto]

These are incredibly impressive photoshop skills

[@theoriginalkings8042]

Tell them why they blew the nose and lips off with a canon in the first place. I'll wait!

[@sansol3395]

I LOVE THE MUSIC!!

[@PrinceMatthewOfTH]

It’s Sphinx perfect?😂

[@cloudstrife3799]

Either the Sphinx and the Photoshoper are amazing

[@farahsamir401]

I already had nightmares from the idea of the “pharos” and the statues so thanks for giving me even more nightmares 😂 Imagine being afraid of something u see everyday on your way home it’s horrible 😂

[@jeromelesturgie9069]

You are a genius

[@artgamechanger3841]

Nose is too small but outside of that, looks good.

[@yatumuru-bey6074]

exact same thing I said.

[@mosezmunzwe]

They remove the nose, becz they wanted to rewrite the Egyptian history away from black nose. Look how he made it White and small. I challenge this person to be made with black nose, you will see the outcome, a perfect fit.

[@starthelotus3453]

Munzwe1 Egypt wasn’t all black, it was mixed.

[@cowabungga]

@@starthelotus3453 it's mixed now because of the invasions.

[@NOU-iw3gb]

Egyptians were not black. They were Caucasoid. Apart from that one time there were some nubian rulers. But that's it.

[@mz204455]

Honestly you did a phenomenal job.

[@N8riz]

Fact: if you turn about a 180 degrees from the Sphinx, there's a pizza hut about 2 football fields away.

[@BaltimoreColt]

Don't forget the KFC.

[@alanoliver5762]

Which is perfect I always get hungry for pizza after a hike in the desert.

[@manetrigolini2967]

Very nice video!

[@maxfury7226]

There’s a painting that exists of the face before Napoleon blew it apart...the nose bridge wasn’t that high

[@pineapple365]

Max Fury what is the painting called? I really want to see it!

[@maxfury7226]

pineapple365 not sure what it is called...wish I could post a pic of it here...

[@beautifullove2394]

Where can we find it?

[@maxfury7226]

Beautiful Love www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/big-egyptian-sphinx-cover-hidden-chambers-unexcavated-mound-and-endless-denial-021647

[@maxfury7226]

pineapple365 www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/big-egyptian-sphinx-cover-hidden-chambers-unexcavated-mound-and-endless-denial-021647

[@erinmorticia8990]

I never even knew that the Sphinx had a beard until now. Amazing that these structures still remain after all this time.

[@eunaekim9216]

Judging by the overwhelming positive response to this video, someone should build a replica of the Sphinx that looks like the final picture here. They would probably make a fortune in tourist dollars!

[@skylerpoduska]

Yeah they would

[@mirayo7876]

Stealing Egyptian history I see? Just like what Germans did

[@Yoliplanting]

Not agree with other interpretations but you nailed this one.

[@lizbeth6343]

That egyptian music scares me, wtf

[@AndreaDoesStuff]

Same

[@firexo]

I guess you get easily scared then

[@lizbeth6343]

Fire is pro maybe, I don’t think so, but maybe

[@LyviaForte]

Amazing work!!

[@hmmm3210]

The sphinx looks like it has some paint on it that faded away.

[@hmmm3210]

@@श्रीजनरिजाल Would've been great of he did though

[@IvanPlayStation4LiFe]

Nicely done

[@Saraad94]

Sphinx needs a primer! 😂

[@제마이마]

please do more of this its oddly satisfyinggg stg

[@moro653]

Fun Fact: the person who broke the Sphinx face was a French man in 1799 called Napoleon Bonaparte Egyptian btw🇪🇬💛

[@firexo]

He broke the beard or what did he broke

[@moro653]

@@firexo he wanted to break the whole Sphinx in 1799 but he couldn't he only broke his nose but over time the Sphinx lost its beard and other parts

[@هيرمانللأعلاف]

good

[@napoleonbonaparte9227]

I love this guy

[@epicscratcher5162]

Putting a nose on it is like bringing Michael Jackson back

[@Jose_Sanchi]

I wish Michael Jackson was still alive music isn't the same without him:(

[@rosariaalves4030]

Congratulations!!!Beautiful!!👏🏻👏🏻👌🏼

[@nziom]

I legit thought France is acctualy gonna fix it (when napoleon attacked on Egypt he couldn't destroy sphinx exept for the nose)

[@Arkhaan_]

That is not true. The nose of the Sphix has been missing since at least the 15th century.

[@emilmogensen115]

This is a true masterpiece

[@thereason2258]

FYI, The Sphinx is a black man and they cut off his nose so the world wouldn’t know.

[@Blockade20]

This is better than actual Historical restorations!

[@chrisvoss8405]

Love your Egyptian stuff. Rad af

[@Anubis10110]

You are an artist

[@rosariarametta3873]

Stupenda ! Io la restaurerei subito usando gli stessi materiali da cui è fatta.Complimenti per il programma .Sara

[@dippndolphin8279]

You were doing very good work in restoring the nose