埃及投诉石家庄“狮身人面像”

近期中国河北省石家庄市一座高仿的埃及古文物狮身人面像引起埃及文物部门高度关注,由于施工方未获得埃及方面的许可建造复制品,遭到埃及文物部门向联合国教科文组织投诉. The Egyptian government is protesting Hebei province's replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza, saying the structure undermines the country's cultural heritage. The company that built the replica as part of a movie set responded that it would tear down the statue after the movie is finished. The Sphinx copy, about 80 meters long and 30 meters tall, has a close likeness to the original 4,500-year-old limestone Sphinx that sits southwest of Cairo. The copy, located in a theme park near the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang, has attracted many visitors since April, when construction was finished. However, Egypt is not flattered by the imitation. Mohammed Ibrahim, Egypt's minister of antiquities, said the country has filed its objection to the Chinese copy with UNESCO. Ibrahim said the phony Sphinx violated UNESCO's 1972 Convention and is "a violation of Egypt's rights to its cultural heritage and a bad imitation that disfigures the original"