The Egyptian Trail - I've found a sphinx!
Blow me down, a Sphinx in London, well I never! A lot of people will know where we are by now, location is revealed tomorrow. But can you see those chips in the plinth? They were caused by the explosion of a bomb dropped on London, from a Zeppelin in 1917.
I'm on holiday this week, so posting happens courtesy of Manuel at San Francisco Daily Photo
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post a commentNice find Ham! And beautiful shot!
Egypt in London, and outside of the Museum...interesting, Ham...
If you walk into the park by Cleopatra's Needle, there is also a little camel - a memorial to the Camel Corps, many, if not most, of whom fought in Egypt. Does that count?
Great picture, the sphinx in the softer sunlight of London.
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I'm really anxious to know why they put a sphinx there! Hope it wasn't a german Zeppelin- but I'm afraid it was...
Très surprenant grâce à ton angle de vue. Great shot !
This is one of the two sphinxes in embankment London guarding "Cleopatra's Needle". The damage on the sphinx's pedestal was caused by a bomb dropped on London by Germany on Sept. 4 1917, during world war I. (I'm doing a project on it in school)