The Fool said:
Well if you mean writing.
By the usual definition, the boundary between history and prehistory isn't the same as the boundary between civilised and uncivilised cultures, but between those periods for which we have written evidence and those for which we don't. Clearly there were sophisticated societies with complex economies and cultures, urbanisation, monumental architecture and relatively advanced technologies before the beginning of history.
The sphynx is estimated as being 8000+ years ago.
Perhaps by some people, but most Egyptologists date it to the Fourth Dynasty, the time in the middle of the third millennium BC when the nearby large pyramids were built by the pharaohs Khufu, Khafra and Menkaura. The construction of the Great Sphynx is often attributed to Khafra (as was believed in New Kingdom Egypt a thousand years later) or his brother Djedefra.
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