The Sphinx, photo uploaded to Flickr by mtsn licensed via Creative Commons
The Sphinx is one of the icon of Egypt, and anyone seeing and image of it will immediately associate it with Egypt. In my country, Malaysia, there is a popular and unique shopping mall called Sunway Pyramid built in a disused former mining lake with most of its floors and some parking lots below ground level. Above the ground is a pyramid containing the above the ground floors with shops and the front is graced by a replicate of the Sphinx. Fronting the mall is an al-fresco cafe offering the hookah to the adventurous, a single or multi-stemmed water pipe device for smoking by water-filtration and indirect heat, with many substances, such as herbal fruits and tobacco. The hookah, although originating from India, is now more associated with Middle East countries such as Egypt.
The Sphinx is actually more related to Greek mythology than Egypt, but in Egypt, serves as mythical creatures serving as guardians for Egyptian statuaries. The largest and most famous is the Great Sphinx of Giza with a face believed to be associated with the head of the pharaoh Khafra.
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