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                                                    The Restoration team:





  The Sphinx Restoration project under the supervision of H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture.

Dr. Gaballa Ali Gaballa
 
 General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities & other General Secretaries.
 
 
Dr. Zahi Hawass
 
 Director
 
 
Adam Henein
 
 Sculptor (from 1992 1995)
 
 
Dr. Mahmoud Mabrouk
 
 Sculpture Supervisor and Artist (1989 - 1998)
 
 
Dr. Shawki Nakhla
 
 Scientific Director
 
 

Special thanks to the late Dr. Sayed Tawfik who initiated the project.

Architectual Engineers: - Abdel Hamid Kotb
- Adel Amin Zaki
 
Archaeologists: - Nassau Mohamed Ramadan.
- Emad Fahmy Mohamed.
 
Conservation:  - Moustafa Abdel Kader, head of conservation.
- Mohamed Sayed Mabrouk. Assistant
 
* Technical Supervision: - Said Hassan Mohamed. Overseer of Sculpture.
- Yassien Mohamed Ahmed. Assistant. 



Cost:

80 Thousand Egyptian Pounds (per month)

* Project started in January 1989.

    December 25, 1998.

    the final stage of the restoration.


http://guardians.net/hawass/sphinx2.htm

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sphinx1.htm