Abou two thousand years later, around 570 B.C., sand had covered all but the head of the Great Sphinx. The people living in area at that time did not know the history of the statue, so they imagined that the head represented the sun God Ra and began worshiping it. The son of Phoaraoh Amenhotep II heard the head speak to him in dream.The Sphinx's head made him promise to clear the sand from the state's body. The son, Thutmose, kept his word and did what he was told in the dream. He also built walls around the statue to prevent the sand from covering it again. After all of the sand was cleared away, Thutmose made a large stone tablet that told the story of his dream. He placed this tablet between thectwobfront feet of the Sphinx, Where it stands to this day.