I don't see the difference between these two sphinxes, can you?

The second sphinx has seen some things.

The first picture is of the so-called "Great Sphinx of Tanis", which currently sits in the Louvre. Here's more info on it from their website: https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notic...

As you can probably tell the second sphinx wasn't even made by the ancient Egyptians. In fact, it was made in the 13th century and currently sits in Viterbo, Italy's Museo Civico. Despite the fact that it wasn't made in Imperial Rome, I was fortunate enough to find out about it in Anne Roullet's The Egyptian and Egyptianizing Monuments of Imperial Rome (it's fig. 8 of Plate III and it's described in detail on page 8), which I downloaded here: https://dreven-iztok.ucoz.com/board/d...

The song is Pompeii by Bastille.