I hope that all the relics, large and small, in Egypt are protected by someone. Under Morsi I think they would have been in danger at some point. Islam is as fond of destroying symbols as they are destroying non-believers and each other. The Sphinx is surely a tempting target for their hatred. I can’t answer your question. Who knows what is next.
The sphinx is really interesting. There’s speculation it was there before the pyramids. I’m one of those who believe that the Sphinx came first, the pyramids later.
The first historical record we have of it is in 1400 BC - and even then, they didn’t have a clue.
I figure it that way too, CG.
That is to say, I agree with your observation that "Islam" [you can read a whole bunch of other deranged, dysfunctional human attitudes under that head, too, including Western Left Progressivism] is in the business of undermining and supplanting any and all human cultures which do not conform to the seventh-century Mohammed Model of human societal order. As determined by the Will of Allah in every particular, of course.
I do so hope, too, that "all the relics, large and small, in Egypt are protected by someone."
One thing that human history tells you: When you forget the past, it's difficult to discern a living future. And so, the default position becomes an historical past that no one now living remembers. Certainly not in a way that anyone now living has actually learned anything about in, say, the public schools. And so we humans get to repeat the history of which we seem to be deliberately ignorant, now and forever, one more time....
Thanks, CG!