These are not just any old-timey visitors to the Great Sphinx. This is from 1864, when a group of Ja
These are not just any old-timey visitors to the Great Sphinx. This is from 1864, when a group of Japanese emissaries went on a diplomatic mission to Europe. And they just stopped by the Sphinx and posed in full samurai regalia. Seriously. -- source link
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