After a video showing vintage photographs of the Sphinx excavations from the 1920s and 30s we went on the hunt for more, and came across something we had never seen before, actual video footage of the Sphinx excavation and renovation work from nearly 100 years ago.

Most vintage black and white footage of the Sphinx comes from after 1930s, and you can tell this because the headdress has been restored, but finding footage of the Sphinx pre-1930s is incredibly rare. In fact such footage is generally stored on archives, owned by private companies and it never gets to see the light of day.