The beard of the Great Sphinx of Giza is now exhibited in which museum?

The beard of the Great Sphinx of Giza is now exhibited in the British Museum.

The museum holds a limestone fragment of the Sphinx’s ceremonial beard, catalogued as EA58. It measures about 78.7 centimetres high and is displayed in the Egyptian sculpture galleries in London. Other beard fragments are held in Cairo, so the answer refers to the prominent British Museum fragment rather than the complete beard.

The Sphinx is generally associated with the Fourth-Dynasty pharaoh Khafre and was carved from the limestone bedrock at Giza. The beard was probably added much later, during the New Kingdom, when the monument was restored and worshipped as the god Horemakhet. Its curved, braided form identified the figure as divine rather than simply royal.

The fragment was excavated near the Sphinx in the early nineteenth century by Giovanni Battista Caviglia and donated to the British Museum in 1818. A common mix-up is assuming the beard was part of the original Fourth-Dynasty carving; evidence suggests it was a later addition.